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hey, it’s me @emmaconard 👋🏻
don’t let a kind thought go unspoken 📣
YEAR 8 BEGINS THIS FEBRUARY 🤍

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hey friends! i’m emma 👋🏻⁣
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if you’ve followed me on instagram for a while (@emmaconard) you might have seen me, every February, do this little thing I like to call “𝟓 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐈’𝐦 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫”. If you’re new, or even if I’ve just never explained it to you before, here’s the story of that ⬇️⁣
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Back in 2019, I heard @mikezizolfo (𝘠𝘖𝘜’𝘙𝘌 𝘈𝘞𝘌𝘚𝘖𝘔𝘌 𝘛𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘒 𝘠𝘖𝘜 👏🏻) preach a message on gratitude and he challenged everyone to write down “5 Things A Day You’re Grateful For”. And once I started posting, took off in the BEST way.⁣
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It caught on and I started doing it 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘍𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦. I’ve gotten to see several other friends even begin to post their own “5 things” on instagram (𝐩.𝐬. 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐲! 𝐲𝐚𝐲!). ⁣
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Doing my “5 Things” has RADICALLY changed my outlook on life. I walk around every day, searching for the next thing to be grateful for instead of searching for problems or seeing a lack of something. ⁣
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So that’s why I’m here! Hopefully to encourage, bring a smile, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐒 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐬 (you’re one of them 😉). So many wonderful, undeserving gifts, more than we can count. 𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 🤍

And I hope, ultimately, that these posts make people feel loved and seen, the same way Jesus loves and sees YOU 💛

DON’T LET A KIND THOUGHT GO UNSPOKEN ➡️ taken in Grateful Life by @5grateful

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5 years ago

and just like that, YEAR SEVEN of @5grateful begins!!! but this year is a bit different… ♥️♾️

This account will be a bit quieter this year. While I truly believe social media is an amazing tool- and a powerful way to spread the joy of @5grateful- I felt strongly led to do something completely different this year.

There are a lot of messages I want to share and people I want to honor this year. It felt more meaningful, personal, and genuine to do it away from a screen.

so… check your mailboxes ladies and gentlemen. I’ll be sending out a batch of letters every Sunday in February! 💌📫 taken in Grateful by @5grateful

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9 months ago

& that friends is a wrap on my 𝐒𝐈𝐗𝐓𝐇 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑 of @5grateful 👋🏻
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every year I become increasingly more aware of how much I have to be grateful for. i love my life + i love my people 🤍

Jesus truly has given ALL OF US so many good gifts, if we only look around and notice!!!
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who knows what the future of this account will be, but in the meantime…⁣
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𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘢 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘨𝘰 𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 📣 by @5grateful

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2 years ago

there’s so many things I could say about what Jesus means to me, especially over the course of this past year, but it’s really something best shared over coffee ☕️

𝐈’𝐝 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞. 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 🤍

being in God’s Word daily is important.⁣
spiritual disciplines (like prayer/fasting) are important.⁣
unwavering godly community is important.⁣
investing in a local church is important.⁣
i’ll die on this hill. ⁣
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[𝘐𝘍 𝘠𝘖𝘜’𝘙𝘌 𝘙𝘌𝘈𝘋𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘚: 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘑𝘰𝘴𝘩 𝘙𝘶𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦’𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘤𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝟸/𝟻/𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟻. 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 & 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴]⁣

forever my favorite verses: 𝐈𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐚𝐡 𝟓𝟖:𝟏𝟏-𝟏𝟐 🤍⁣
The Lord will guide you continually,⁣
    giving you water when you are dry⁣
    and restoring your strength.⁣
You will be like a well-watered garden,⁣
    like an ever-flowing spring.⁣
Some of you will rebuild the deserted ruins of your cities.⁣
    Then you will be known as a rebuilder of walls⁣
    and a restorer of homes
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𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐒 ♾️ by @5grateful

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2 years ago

everyone should say thank you to Parker for your @5grateful posts, because it wasn’t even on my radar to reboot this girl until he texted me!!!

I have so many memories of Parker from college that make me absolutely beam with joy. Parker was truly one of my go-to people in college and when we graduated, I was so glad we stayed in touch via texting/calling and the annual Red Robin reunion dinner with @reeceloganjulian. And all of that warrants a @5grateful post alone. But my favorite memories of Parker happened when he moved back to LYH, and praise God he did.

And while the fun/carefree moments of college are what made our relationship, it was navigating the weird/confusing/chaotic parts of post-grad adulthood that really solidified it. Parker is patient enough to listen to my 11 minute voice memo life-updates. Parker is patient enough to drive me to my favorite restaurant an hour away, when they have a location half an hour closer. He’s patient enough to listen for two hours *and* ask detailed questions when I bring a whiteboard over to his house and map out my future for him. He’s patient enough to drive my roommates furniture to goodwill when we were moving. He’s patient enough to drive my mattress to the dump all the way out in Big Island. I’m a big acts of service girl. It takes a lot of patience to keep showing up for people, but Parker does. Thoughtful to buy my favorite champagne when I move. Dependable to have a spare key to my house. He’s kind, consistent, *funny*, HOSPITABLE, and easy-going. We all love him for it!

Cramming a million people into a townhouse for bachelor nights in college is a blast, but I’m even more grateful for people you can count on to keep a spare key to your house and show up at your front doorstep every time you lock yourself out. I’m grateful for people who can balance the highs and the lows. Parker, you’re so important to me, I think so highly of you, and I’m 100% in your corner forever 🐝 by @5grateful

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2 years ago

lynchburg, va • home, the way home should be 🏡

Truly, my favorite part of most vacations is coming home to Lynchburg. I love my time away from this place, but I feel like when I come home, the sunsets looks brighter, my house feels warmer, and the familiarity of this place is sharpened 🤍

Bev once told me that in order to live somewhere, you need to find a good hairdresser, a good church, (and if I can add one thing) a good auto-body shop. Well, after my silly little car accident in November, I finally found all three here 🙌🏼

⬆️ Ultimately, what’s more important than those three is the PEOPLE. I love that I’m double booked for plans every night this week. I love that I always have someone to call if I get in trouble. I have the best people.

I love LYH in the summertime when it clears out. I love the Urgent Care on Timberlake. I love 5th Street Tires. I love that I can never go back to the Applebee’s on Candler’s Mountain. I love that I cannot go to Target without seeing someone I know. I love Lynchburg short-hand, culture, and the drama on our facebook page. I love being an hour from Roanoke and Cville and most importantly, BMB. I love White Hart on a snow day. I love driving around without a GPS and always knowing where I am. I love Monday nights and Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings. I love driving out to pray over my little log cabin every single week. I love the sunsets, the people, my Lynchburg Bucket List, and the fact that I’ve lived here for almost a decade.

There’s more I can say, and a lot more that I deeply feel, but I’ll leave it at this: I feel a strong loyalty to this town. Even when my instinct is to run, something always keeps me here, and I never regret it. I feel lucky to have lived + traveled to a lot of places, but there’s nowhere like home 🌄 by @5grateful

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2 years ago

Since Day 1 of freshman year at LU, Emma has been a forever type of friend. I lived almost exclusively out of her room on Floor 4, then Emma and I *actually* lived together post-grad for a summer. I briefly lived with her parents when I was moving back from Nash and needed somewhere to crash before my townhouse opened up. I celebrated at her wedding, we’ve gone to Hilton Head together, had “baking days” at her house freshman year, and she’s my first text every Christmas morning 🎂🥳

Emma is incredibly hard working. Watching her start and finish PA school has been really cool to watch. Emma doesn’t easily give up, even when things are hard and she has to move far from home. She is an incredibly consistent friend, and I’m grateful that when we get together it’s like no time has passed at all. She’s easy to talk to, and listens well.

Best of all, Emma is incredibly honest. She’s someone I would trust one thousand percent when seeking advice. I’ve said this before and meant it: a dozen people could give me the same advice, but hearing it come from Emma makes it sound different. She loves me enough to tell me what I need to hear, not just want to hear, and she balances truth and love well. I respect her opinion more than most other people. We’ve also been friends for almost a decade now, so she’s earned that respect.

Emma, you’re such an answered prayer!!! Praise God our friendship can survive long distance, and Praise God that soon long distance will be over 🥳🤸🏻‍♀️🪩 I love you so so much, and am so grateful for you 💛 by @5grateful

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2 years ago

oh how far we’ve come from when I was helping you in YOUR kindergarten class!!!

I love Kristen so much. She welcomed me at Big Island like no one else. Truly, my first year at BI, her little class felt like mine. She trusted me when I had no idea what I was doing. And she cheered me on when my roles kept changing. She was my practicum mentor during the wildfire of 2023 and gave me so much grace as I was coming off the heels of teaching 4th grade. She has helped me adjust to Kindergarten and has adopted one of my little kiddos into her family (literally 😉), even going above and beyond to make an extra 100 Days Hat. Kristen ALWAYS steps up to go the extra mile and help at work, whether it’s keeping us informed with the politics, doing dismissal duty, or moving grades 100 times. And that hard-working character isn’t just for school- I’ve benefitted from it outside of work. Kristen went above and beyond to help me move in November- packing everything into boxes with me and driving 3 loads to my new apartment. I love getting dinner with her, the glimpses of her I see at school, poking my head into her class, and being her friend 💙

Kristen is hard-working, tough, and kind. She’s a phenomenal mom, always bragging about her kids. She’s an amazing and creative teacher. She’s an awesome friend who I always love having in my corner as an advocate or go-to for advice. Kristen truly is one of my favorites at Big Island, and I am so grateful for her 🐾

co-teachers in the future??? we would probably have too much fun together 😂 by @5grateful

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2 years ago

i 🫶🏼 my church!!!

briefly going back to the OG format of @5grateful because there’s too much to say about @thehopecompany_ 🖤⚓️
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1. I’m grateful, first and foremost, for 𝐏𝐉 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐠. I’m grateful that their reputation is such that when I told my friends I was going to attend HopeCo, their immediate reactions were to praise PJ and Doug and the influence they had on them at LU. They are clearly easy-going and relational, but equally uncompromising and firm on the gospel. ⁣
2. I am SO grateful for this church’s 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞. The first year I attended HopeCo, we went through the book of Mark verse by verse. It was also while I was attending this church that I finished reading the entire Bible for the first time. Everything we do (from the name of our church, to our mission, to the model in which we do ministry) flows from His Word. You will not leave this place without learning more about the Bible. ⁣
3. I’m grateful for my 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 here. For our groupchats, brunches, dedicating babies, celebrating birthdays, getting coffee or doing our nails or helping me move. I’m grateful for their consistency and the bond we have.
4. This church is 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲. I am grateful for the transparency of this place. I am so grateful for Selah Sunday’s and the regular ability to rest as a body. You can tell when you walk into a church if the leaders are walking fast or slow, and people walk slow through HopeCo. I’m grateful that healthy things GROW, and I got to witness people literally walking over hills to get a seat in Leesville because they know God moves here. ⁣
5. This church is 𝐉𝐎𝐘𝐅𝐔𝐋. That was the first thing I noticed about this place. I think that stems from the health of it, but you will leave this place refreshed and restored every week. That’s the mark of Jesus. I really can’t put words to this- you just have to experience it for yourself. ⁣
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my favorite memory: our last Sunday at Leesville, bawling my eyes out (i’m a sentimental girl), and thinking equally about how grateful I am for the past two years here, and how excited I feel about the future! by @5grateful

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2 years ago

NEIGHBORSSSSSS 🏡

THEY ARE SO HOSPITABLE. I’m so grateful that I can spend 10 hours at their house after church on a Sunday. They have such an open-door policy, and I love that I can walk in to their house without knocking, fall asleep on their couch, or leave to get food and then come right back. They are the best brunch hosts and live out “the more the merrier”. I LOVE BEING NEIGHBORS!!!

Jez- truly my #1 hype man. Nobody makes me laugh harder, but on the flipside, NOBODY laughs harder at my jokes than Jez does. I got to know Jez first through the PB&J show back when I was in college (CRAZY!). I’m so grateful that we’re still friends, even if that means screaming at each other during the super bowl, or screaming about boys, or just screaming in general. Jez works hard, clearly loves his family, and (i think) is the unofficial leader, glue, and master chef of our Sunday brunches.

Sam- MY GIRL. She is *the most* protective of her friends and she is fiercely loyal. Last fall, the day I found out I was moving out of my townhouse, Sam had me over to their apartment within an hour of me texting her. I love talking about the Bible with her (whether that’s our matching study bibles or the bible recap). I can be totally honest with her and she really has become such a close friend over these last few years. She works SO hard (i’ll never forget cheering her on as she graduated nursing school with Lij in their living room) but still makes time for her friends. Sam is the best!

Lij- he plays hard to get, but I know deep down he’s obsessed with me, and I’m even more obsessed with him. He has the best laugh when I tickle him. He’s my little bestie, and I love love love getting to watch him grow up 😭🩵

I can’t tell you what a gift their community at church, and the familiarity they represent, has meant to me this past season. They are consistent, encouraging, and I love the three of them with my whole heart!!! by @5grateful

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2 years ago

4th grade 4ever ✏️📓📋

Teaching Hales’ class last year was the best unexpected gift at Big Island. Nothing prepared me more for having my own class this year. I am so grateful that Hales trusted me to take care of her kids.

Hales is still helping me with my class this year. Whether it’s buying something off my teacher registry, giving me her radio when I forget to charge mine, or having one of her kids run a jacket up from the playground when my kids forget, Hales always has my back. She’ll fill me in on what I’ve missed on the upper hall and I love the little glimpses I get to see of her throughout my day. Hales really took the reigns and texted reminders out in our groupchat for our *secret project* at work (wink wink). She looks out for the kids in my class, especially since some of our students are related. She knows my kids names. And I love that she still uses some slides/systems in her class that I made when I was her long-term sub 🤣

Best of all is the Hales I get to see outside of school. I love our little girl gang community. I love our NYT Games groupchat and our “BIES 4EVER” groupchat & brunch dates & there’s hopefully many more girls nights to come. Even though I’m newer to BIES, I’m grateful for how included I’ve felt since day one.

Your class will always be my first, Hales! I’ll never forget that opportunity and I love you for it 💕 by @5grateful

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2 years ago

coming up with an adjective to describe Mac was easy 🕊️🤍

what they say about the first year of teaching being the hardest is (hopefully) true. Mac’s first year was crazier than mine. But I got to watch her go through it, and no matter what was happening, she handled everything with grace and patience, and fully loved the kids in her class. I wish we could’ve taught at the same school, but I play Mac’s same instrumental playlist in my classroom, Mac got me gorgeous string lights for my class, and I got to inherit Mac’s old filing cabinet (which still has her name on it, and I won’t take it off because it makes me smile seeing her name). Even though we’re not teaching together, it feels like we are. Once a bulldog, always a bulldog 🐾

Ultimately, apart from how amazing of a teacher Mac is, she’s an even better friend. I love getting dinner with her, or game nights at her apartment. Mac is just as gentle with her friends as she is with her kids, and she gives comforting advice and encouragement. Teaching can be crazy, but it’s nice talking about someone who gets it and has been there, AND who views it all through the lens of work being a mission field for Jesus.

I’m obsessed with her space themed classroom and the cute meaning behind it, and I am 100% so excited to cheer her on in May as we celebrate the next season in her life 💒 I love you, Mac! by @5grateful

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2 years ago