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Evolution of Emma's Bridal

I just thought that I would detail here on my new blog the design process of Emma's Bridal Jewelry. To get the design hammered down probably took a little less than a month or so. I was busy with school at the same time and working on it in my spare time. It was a lot of fun collaborating with my sister Laura to get something that looked trendy and girly, even though we switched directions numerous times.
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The Big Apple

Well, for the first time in 21 years I was finally able to see New York City. Going in I felt like I was going to be entering a foreign country where they spoke English. I had a lot of pre-conceptions about what it was like before going in, and most of the conceptions that I had were pretty accurate except for a few things.
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posted in: Apple | Life |

Emma's Bridal Jewelry Launched!

Well, around two weeks ago, I was finally able to launch Emma's Bridal Jewelry. Unfortunately, it was far from a grand opening. That's the problem with eBusiness. You can't have grand opening sales or anything like that. I suspect that this process of opening and getting the first customer through the door will take a matter of weeks or months.
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The Practice of Praying

More and more recently I've been feeling God's pull on me to draw nearer to Him and spend more time with Him. Daily devotions are the best way I think to actually get to know God better. I have to spend time with Him if I want to know what His direction is for my life. But the discipline of daily devotions is hard! In the matter of praying, I have a prayer list that I try to pray through every day. Just general requests for my friends and for myself and my family. I also try to follow a little acronym that Laura and Aaron gave the youth group a few years ago: A.C.T.S. Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication. I think that one of the things I've been learning is that you can't just put your prayers into a formula too much. I don't want to just pray the same thing every day. The adoration part was always hard to do. How can I adore God and tell Him how much I love Him if my personal relationship with Him is un-developed? The only way that I found I can truly grow close to Christ is if I learn to pray with the right motivations. What am I seeking? Am I seeking to glorify God or myself? Am I praying for selfish reasons or for God glorifying reasons? In what I ask for in my prayers, is it going to serve to draw me nearer to Christ or to the things of this world? James 4:3 says, 'You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions." I can't remember where I heard this recently, but someone said that when you pray for the wrong reasons, it's like a wife asking her husband if she can go be with another man so she can commit adultery with him! God is a jealous God and isn't going to grant a prayer that only serves to grow my dependance on the world. He wants me to pray that I would grow closer to Him! That my dependance would be more on Him than on material things. So my prayer life is dead unless I seek to glorify Him with what I pray for.
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