Diamonds - A Girls Best Friend

If you were to ask me if I loved jewelery, my first response would be: "No, I"m not a jewelry girl". That statement is somewhat true. I don't change my jewelry to match what I'm wearing. I hardly ever change my jewelry. I couldn't tell you the last time I changed my jewelry. I have my pieces of jewelry that I love and almost always wear them - I don't need anymore. Yet I have to admit that I do like the bling of diamonds. My earrings have diamond balls; my belly ring has diamonds and I used to wear a diamond on my finger - I do like the sparkle of diamonds....so maybe I am a jewelry girl after all......

Nahhhhhh...I'm a diamond girl:)

"Diamonds" made me think of a conversation that I had with my Mom the other day. As Moms do, she was encouraging me and said - "You're a beautiful diamond, Jenn"

I googled what is required to make a diamond. Did you know that diamonds start off as coal deep in the earth and through a process become one of the strongest stones. Here is what I found is required:

1.Bury carbon dioxide 100 miles into Earth.
2.Heat to about 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit.
3.Squeeze under pressure of 725,000 pounds per square inch.
4.Quickly rush towards Earth’s surface to cool.

I have to say that there isn't anything about this process that I see as appealing. I wouldn't like to face heat of 2200 degree nor being squeezed under pressure of 725,000 pounds!!!!! Yet, that is required to make a diamond.

A diamond! A stone so sought after. A stone that has so much value. A stone that is dreamt about by most girls - that they will find their "happily-ever-after" - be asked on a bended knee to share a life - a box presented that holds a diamond ring. Something that is so sought after....

Yet it requires those four things to become a diamond....

As my Mom said- "You're a beautiful diamond, Jenn." It's only because of "degree of the temperture and the pressure" that God is allowing in my life that I can start the process of changing from coal to a diamond.

It has not been easy - not at all! Yet if my children, my family and friends can look at my life and see a diamond, then my only response is: Thank you, God, for taking an interest of taking the coal and refining it into diamond.

Soooooooo.....when your days become difficult, remember that you are becoming a diamond. And please don't forget to remind me when I forget as well.