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Have you all missed me? I have missed you guys. I am so not use to using this blog way of writing. I need to get use to journaling here instead of my personal journal. Can't wait to talk with you all and check out what you have been doing.

Emily

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Posted in Family

Just want to tell everyone that my baby sister is finally here. She is so beautiful. Her name is Ariana Maria Faith Bacon and she weighed 7lbs, 12oz and 21 inches long. She has a head full of beautiful soft silky black hair. I will be posting pictures soon so stay tuned.

Emily

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Hi everyone, are you all excited about starting school this year? I am so excited to start 5th grade. I have so many things I want to accomplish this year. I want to read so many bopks and finish my first quilt. I have a scrapbook to finish and journals to make. I plan on starting a book club with my friends. Also, I want to start a Pre-teen Missions Prayer Group with my friends too. I have so much in my mind and heart to finish. Keep me in your prayers. Also, my mom is due to having my baby sister in 12 days. (Aug 11) I can't wait.

Well, have a wonderful day!

Emily

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Posted in Young in Heart

I am so excited. I am in the 5th grade and it is a new beginning to achieve great things this year. I am starting some really neat curriculum. My mom has geared alot of my schooling towards literature. I LOVE TO READ, especially the classics. I am so excited, did I say that already? Well, one more time, "I AM SO EXCITED."

I am also working on my art portfolio and 4 small story books for children this year. I will let you know all the details as they come along.

Well, I just wanted to say hello and that I am still hear, I am just preparing for schooling and decorating my room as well. I will get pictures on the blog soon. My theme is British relaxation, kind of like something you would see Emma's room, back in the Edwardian time. I can't wait.

Well ta ta for know,

Emily

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Posted in Movie Reviews

Becoming Jane ~ You can view a clip of this movie at :

http://becomingjane-themovie.com/

I love this movie, well I love any old kind of movies. I can't wait to see it. My mom says we don't have to many like this these days. I am a unique young girl to like such things. she says, "That is what makes me special." I hope you enjoy the movie clip I have also added some pics to my blog and in my link department there is a link called, Becoming Jane. A VERY GOOD INFORMATIVE LINK.

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Posted in Modest Clothing

I found this at http://fearlesslyfeminine.blogspot.com/2006/01/letter-from-christian-guys.html

Saturday, January 07, 2006

A letter from Christian Guys....

Girls, could we talk to you right out of our hearts for a few minutes?
It is awkward for us to talk about something of this nature, in person,
so we thought we would write our feelings.
We are young men who have been saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit.
We desperately want to live for Christ and not follow the ways of the
world. Since we have been baptized (immersed) in a "Holy" Spirit, we
feel in our hearts that we should live "holy" lives. After all, our
bodies are the temple, the sanctuary, the place where the "Holy" Spirit
lives and makes His home.
We know that guys and girls are affected differently, so since we
desperately want to follow hard after God, could we kindly and
respectfully ask you to help us with a few things?
We realize that girls are primarily stimulated or turned on by "touch."
Did you know that guys are turned on by "sight?" So when you are
"aroused" (sexually awakened) by a guy's "touch," we are in the same
way aroused by mere "sight." Let us explain. When we see girls who are
dressed in a suggestive, revealing, provocative, teasing, tantalizing
manner, our sexual desires are aroused. Our bodies are then affected.
To be absolutely candid, let us give you some examples of what we are
referring to. If you are wearing a blouse that barely meets the waist
of your slacks and some of your skin showswhile you are moving around,
or simply while you are walking, sitting, or kneeling, our minds are
geared to wonder what more of your body would look like further
up....This causes our bodies to respond biologically, and suddenl we
are fighting a war in our minds and bodies. And that war of lust is
continuing often long, even hours, after you are gone. We hate this,
because our "righteous man" wants to think pure thoughts....
When you wear low-cut tops which are in any degree revealing, or when
you bend over, and they are revealing, this again causes us big
problems in the flesh. Or if the back is out of your top, we
automatically think that you do not have the undergarment on, and the
Spirit and the flesh begin to fight again. Or when we see any glimpse
of your undergarments, such as straps and the like, we have trouble.
What we are trying to say is this: If it is not for sale, don't
advertise it. We really feel that the still small voice of the Holy
Spirit speaks to you and nudges you when it is too tight, too short,
too low, or too revealing. Will you listen to that voice? For the
Scripture says, "Quench not the Spirit." (1 Thess. 5:19)

Girls, do you know what we would really like? We would like to come
among our Christian sisters and not have to fight and struggle in the
flesh. We do not need to have to wrestle in the flesh at church or at
church activities. We men, whether young, old, single or married, are
faced with this every day among girls of the "world." But we would like
to have rest in our Spirit man when we come among Christian girls.
After all, doesn't the Scripture tell us to "come out from among the
world and be you separate, saith the Lord." (2 Cor. 6:17) It also tells
us that "all that is in the world, the lust of the eye, and the lust of
the flesh, is not of the Father, but is of the world." (1 John 2:15) We
are the church, not the world.
We know that people often use the verse, "Man looketh on the outward
appearance, but God looketh on the heart," (1 Sam. 16:7) to condone
anything they wish to wear. This is one of the most misused/used
out-of-context verses in the Bible. Conversely, the fact is, if your
heart is pure, your outward appearance will be modest....
Girls can be fashionable and modest at the same time. To be honest, we
respect you more when your appearance is modest, as the Scripture
commands in 1 Timothy 2:9. We really do not want the kind of girl who
dresses provocatively, for we know that if we marry her, she will still
be that way in the presence of other men once we are married.
We know that we have Christian responsibilites toward girls, too. We
must be careful to portray ourselves properly. We must treat you like
ladies. If we are really committed Christian guys, we will strive to
treat you like Jesus would. After all, you are daughters of God.
Thank you, dear Christian sisters, for hearing our hearts on this
subject. Once we have conveyed the truth of the matter to you, you
become responsible before God for what you do with the truth. We really
are "our brother's keeper." (Genesis 4:9.) We know that there is a
"cult of conformity" in our generation, but we as Christians "march to
the beat of a different drummer." Please, girls, do not say, "I don't
care," but help us in these last days to live as close to Jesus as we
can. Thank you so much.

Sincerely,

Committed Christian Guys"

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Posted in Contentment

I enjoyed this blog from "The Lords Daughter." You can find it on her site in her category: Encouragement for young women. I hope you do like it as well.

Concerning Contentment

Note left on May. 13, 2007 at 4:01 PM

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Perhaps one of the hardest and most important lessons a Christian must learn is contentment. We are so accustomed to getting what we want, that we think that it should always be that way.

When we are discontent we are being selfish. Almost every time a person is discontent they are so because they are only thinking about themselves.

Paul says “... for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.” (Philippians 4:10)Should we be any different? No! We should strive to be content in all things.

If you notice, Paul says he had “learned” content. Contentment is a virtue that can be very difficult to come by. Discontentment can be difficult to overcome. We can not hope to overcome it without Christ. But with His help we can overcome it as well as anything else, for “I can do all things, through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13

Why should we overcome discontent? After all not one of the Ten Commandments or anything in Jesus teachings say, “Thou shalt be content”.

Perhaps it is not said in those words, but I think I can give sufficient evidence from the Bible, that God wants us to be content.

First an illustration from the book of Numbers: The people of Israel were not content with what they had to eat; they wanted “flesh”. For their discontentedness they may have seemed rewarded at first - the LORD sent them much quail to eat. In all reality however they were severally punished. The LORD sent a plague among them and many of the people perished. The LORD was punishing His people for being discontent and complaining.

In Matthew 6:10 Jesus taught that we should pray “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” Now certainly we are to mean what we pray, or we would be hypocrites. If we really ask God’s will to be done, then we ought to be content to abide by His will even when we do not like it.

Jesus, shortly before His death on the cross, prayed that His Father would take away the impending trial, however He always ended with asking the Father’s will to be done. He was content that the Father’s will was best.

Everything that happens, no matter what it is, is in God’s hands. If we love the LORD then “all things” will “work together for good...” Romans 8:28 If all is in His hands and we really wish His will to be done, it is wrong to be discontent when life does not go our way.

One more example will suffice. The tenth commandment, “Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbor’s.” Deuteronomy 5:21 This is telling the Israelites to be content with what they already have and not to wish for the possessions of others.

God may not have said “Thou shalt be content”, but He let us know that content is what He wished us to be.

If we are discontent, it deprives us of cheerfulness and therefore we will not be a “light” to “shine before men,” that they may see our good deeds “and praise” our “Father in heaven”. (Matthew 5:16) Discontentedness dulls our light.

Let us pray that God will help us to overcome this enemy discontent, thereby bringing glory to His name! May we all be able to say with Paul, “... for I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.” Philippians 4:11

Contentment is a blessing
That some do not enjoy.
It is a useful too
We often don’t employ.

For we can not all alone
Content and happy be,
But we must ask God’s help -
And He’s promised to help thee.

He will help us be content
Even in times of trouble,
And we will show forth in the world
With our sadness turned to stubble.

Your Sister in Christ,
Rebekah ~ The Lord’s Daughter

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