STYLE
Fashion With A
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It was very interesting to cyber-meet Jasmine Rennie, founder of Grace
Made, a modest clothing line recently, given the similarity between her name
and the name of this magazine.
Here, she discusses her inspirations and vision for her clothing brand.
I grew up in a Christian home with both my mother and father. They instilled
biblical principles in my life, but I never had a true revelation of who Jesus was
for myself. I struggled with identity and knowing my worth which led me to
search for validation in the eyes of men. This only got worse when I went off to
college. I longed to be loved and accepted and thought that getting attention by
exposing my body would bring me the man of my dreams and fill that void, after
all this is what I had been taught my whole life from the media. The women who
were hyper-sexualized and dressed in a provocative way always ended up with
the perfect guy - little did I know this was a lie from the enemy.
In 2014, after being in a relationship that I believed would fill those God-sized
voids, I realized that I could no longer do things my way. All of my efforts to do
things in my own strength left me feeling broken and empty in the end. I finally
decided to surrender my life to Jesus and began to seek Him out. As I began to
get in the word the Lord started to reveal things to me about my identity in Him
and His purpose for my life. One day as I was getting dressed, I heard the Holy
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JASMINE'S PLACE