tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8089964664636984242024-03-04T20:55:33.945-08:00Christian Crochet BlogChristian And Crochet Blog.Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-74303661034279781982015-02-08T22:13:00.001-08:002015-02-08T22:13:09.421-08:00Welcome Back<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Its been 2 years. Wow!!!<br />
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Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-29895854347690680572013-07-25T13:32:00.001-07:002013-07-25T13:53:08.983-07:00Sweater Days<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: medium;">I finished this sweater a few weeks back. My very first adult sweater. It’s a little bit too big though. In the shoulder area. So I’m thinking I might make another one, but shave off about 20 inches or so, and see if that will work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: medium;">Hope everybody out there is doing well.</span></div>
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Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-29415034452848838442013-04-16T21:10:00.000-07:002013-04-16T21:10:39.618-07:00Marisa Tomei, Say It Ain’t So<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Can you believe this? I guess I’m kind of late on movies and things, but did you know Marisa Tomei was naked in this movie? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don’t watch movies much anymore, but when I saw this movie on FX, I couldn’t believe it. I had to google to see if she actually went through with it, and got naked for her role as a stripper. She did!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How could you? I thought you were the one actress who kept her clothes on, and she isn’t. I’m bummed. Totally bummed. Even though I’m sure this movie was a few years old, but still, I’m just now finding this out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are there any actresses who have decided to keep their clothes on? Can anybody help me? </span></div>
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Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-3280303485300296632013-03-25T19:31:00.000-07:002013-03-25T19:31:59.973-07:00The Fall Of Woman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just something I noticed lately, is it me, or are most women being portrayed as whores, sluts, and/or tramps. I get the gist of commercials. The majority of them are just trying to sell something. I get that. But the way some of them are going about doing it, me personally, I don’t find it funny. For example, the Geico commercials. A gecko first…and now a pig.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I couldn’t find the picture that I wanted for this commercial. Where there’s a young lady in the commercial who starts eyeing the gecko in this wedding scene. Flirting I guess you would want to say. Flirting with a gecko? Really?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here’s a commercial from Skittles. A woman kissing a walrus. I didn’t want to post the picture where they are kissing. I thought it was gross. Now I know, I know. Some people may think I’m too much of a prude or a stick in the mud, and maybe I am. I don’t care. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here’s one from way back in the 80’s. Remember this movie. Howard the Duck. It seems to be that what these advertisers and movies are trying to tell you is that women will get with anybody, or in these cases “anything”. Gross. That women have their legs open for anything. That’s not funny to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When did the fall of women really happen? Years ago, when music videos first began, and there was half naked women on the screen, a video vixen? When they first started to make bathing suits more revealing? When a woman decided she was going to pose nude for pictures or for videos? Who knows, really. I don’t. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I just find a lot of things out there to be unsettling. And what makes it even sadder, is that a lot of people don’t care about some of the things that are in commercials and television and movies. It’s business as usual, and nobody is concerned.</span></div>
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Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-1143421952051282652013-03-21T20:43:00.000-07:002013-03-21T20:43:32.639-07:00Don’t Worry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I live in a place that I hate. I wish desperately that I had never moved here. I can’t wait to get out, and I hope after leaving I never see this lady that I am renting from ever again. With all that being said, you might ask, “Why don’t you move”? I believe God wants me to wait. Frustrating, yes! Hard, kind of. I’ve been a Christian for about nine years now, and I have come to trust the Lord. I didn’t say that I liked everything that I believe He has told me. And honestly, I don’t want to wait, but I believe that’s what God wants me to do. Obeying God, no matter how I really feel about it, usually turns out for the best. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other news, the baby things I have been crocheting aren’t done. I made the hat and the sweater too small. I don’t know what I was thinking, the instructions called for a size “G” hook, and I used a size “C”. I don’t know why I didn’t realize this makes a big difference. *Sigh* I’m working on a hat at the moment, and hope I can whip up some baby minutes by Saturday and finish the hat tonight. I’ll try and post pictures when I can, just so gosh darn busy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have a blessed week everybody! Don’t forget Jesus Loves you and don’t worry!</span></div>
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Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-72012749210748524202013-01-29T07:59:00.000-08:002013-01-29T07:59:30.917-08:00Busy Baby<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is my next project. Someone at church is pregnant. I’m not sure when they are due, but I was asking them if there is something I can make for the baby. What color should I get. She mentioned blue, so here it is. I’m not sure how many items I can really get out of this yarn, I’m hoping a hat, sweater, and booties. That’s my hope, but we’ll see. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Been also very busy trying to add more things to my shop. I just completed this cute little amigurumi bunny head</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And before this I was making a custom order. She wanted 10 red heart shaped coffee cozies made out of wool. It took some time, but I finally completed that. And she loved them. Woohooo!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, like I mentioned, my next projects are the baby stuff. Maybe some more bunny heads. A few more coffee cozies. When I get a chance. And some heart shaped and flower shaped pink appliques. Too much? LOL</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don’t know what it is about crocheting, I almost always have more than one project going at a time. Oh well. It keeps me busy. I’ll try and make sure to share my pictures with you as I finish each project. I wanted to share the picture of the coffee cozies I finished for my customer, but I was so happy just to be done with them, I forgot to take the pictures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I can't share the pattern for the bunny head unfortunately. The owner of this pattern asks that the pattern not be shared or reproduced in any way. The item finished for the pattern, it's okay to share that or sell it or do whatever you want with it, she just doesn't want the pattern to be shared or given out. </span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Cotton thread, size 10, light yellow<br />Cotton thread, (about 3 yds), gold<br />Crochet hook size 1.5mm </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finished Measurement: <br />Approximately 3 1/2 inches across at widest point</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ch 4, join with sl st to form a ring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rnd 1: <br />Ch 3 (counts as dc), 14 dc in ring, join with sl st to beginning ch 3. (15 dc) </span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Rnd 2: <br />Ch 3, dc in same st, 2 dc in each dc around, join. (30 dc)</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Rnd 3: <br />Ch 4 (counts as dc and ch 1), dc in same st, *skip 1 dc, (dc, ch 1, dc) in next dc, repeat from * around, join. (45 dc)</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Rnd 4: <br />Ch 3, 3 dc in ch-1 space, * dc in next two dc, 3 dc in ch-1 space, repeat from * around, dc on last dc, join. (75 dc)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">* Ch 1, skip two sts, sc in next st, 2 sc in next, hdc in next, 2 dc in next, dc and tr in next, tr and dc in next, 2 dc in next, hdc in next, 2 sc in next, sc in next, ch 1, skip 2 sts, sl st in next st, repeat from * around.<br />Rnd 6: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ch 1, * sc in each of the next 3 sc, hdc in next st, 2 dc in next st, dc and tr in next, tr in next two sts, ch 2, tr in next two sts, tr and dc in next, 2 dc in next, hdc in next, sc in next 3 sts, sl st on sl st of previous rnd, repeat from * around. Fasten off light yellow.</span> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Attach gold thread in same st.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Rnd 7: <br />With gold thread, * sl st in each of the 10 sts up one point, (2 sc, ch 2, 2 sc) in ch-2 space, sl st across each of the 10 sts down the point, sl st in between points, repeat from * around. Fasten off and weave in ends. Dampen and iron to shape. Attach thread for hanging on ch-2 sp at the tip</span></div>
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Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-82246848351353192152013-01-23T15:29:00.003-08:002013-01-23T15:29:37.074-08:00Simple Crochet Kid Size Slippers Pattern<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">I’m going to just any patterns that I want to share with you here on the blog. I’m not going to make a special page just for patterns. The way blogger/google has it set up, you don’t even really have any room to have a separate page just for patterns. So from now on, I’ll just post any interesting patterns, and if you want to find them, just click on the label “patterns” that’s on the side of the page. Thank You!</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">I used a size G crochet hook and any kind of yarn that will fit that hook.</span></em></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><em><u>Sole of the slipper:</u></em><br /><em>1. Chain 15</em><br /><em>2. Round One:</em><br /><em>2 single crochets in the first stitch</em><br /><em>A single crochet in the next 8 chains</em><br /><em>A half double crochet (hdc) in next stitch</em><br /><em>A double crochet (dc) in the next three stitches</em><br /><em>Finally, make 5 double crochets (dc) in the last stitch</em><br /><em>And then working along the opposite side of the starting chain, double crochet (dc) in the next 3 stitches</em><br /><em>Next, make a half double crochet (hdc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>Then a single crochet (sc) in the next 8 stitches</em><br /><em>And then, 2 single crochets (sc) in the last stitch</em><br /><em>And finally, join with a slip stitch to the beginning single crochet</em><br /><em>Round 2:</em><br /><em>1. Chain 1</em><br /><em>2. Make a single crochet (sc) in the first stitch</em><br /><em>3. 2 single crochets (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>4. Then make a single crochet (sc) in the next 13 stitches </em><br /><em>5. Make 2 single crochets (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>6. Then make 3 single crochets (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>7. 2 single crochets (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>8. A sinle crochet (sc) in the next 13 stitches</em><br /><em>9. 2 single crochets (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>10. And finally, a single crochet (sc) in the last stitch</em><br /><em>11. Join</em><br /><em>Round 3:</em><br /><em>1. Chain 1</em><br /><em>2. Single crochet (sc) in the first stitch</em><br /><em>3. 2 single crochets (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>4. A single crochet (sc) in the next 16 stitches</em><br /><em>5. 2 single crochet (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>6. 3 single crochets (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>7. 2 single crochets (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>8. A sngle crochet (sc) in the next 16 stitches</em><br /><em>9. 2 single crochets (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>10. Finally, a single crochet (sc) in the last stitch</em><br /><em>11. Join</em><br /><em>Round 4:</em><br /><em>1. Chain 1</em><br /><em>2. Make 2 single crochets (sc) in the first stitch</em><br /><em>3. A single crochet (sc) in the next 18 stitches</em><br /><em>4. 2 single crochets (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>5. A single crochet (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>6. 2 single crochets (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>7. 3 single crochets (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>8. 2 single crochets (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>9. Single crochet (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>10. 2 single crochets (sc) in the next stitch</em><br /><em>11. Single crochet (sc) in the next 18 stitches</em><br /><em>12. Finally, 2 single crochets (sc) in the last stitch</em><br /><em>13. Join</em></span></div>
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Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-25982955539221419522013-01-21T21:06:00.001-08:002013-01-22T22:00:03.002-08:00Google/Blogger Stinks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>All I wanted to do, was post a comment on YouTube. They wanted my birthdate. I didn't want to give it. So I gave a made up date. All of a sudden, the page changes, and the words on the screen said that my blog has been removed. Then, they wanted my credit card information, and they charged me 30 cents to have my blog reinstated. </em></span></span><br />
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Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-51831458380749395352012-12-30T22:27:00.000-08:002012-12-30T22:27:59.266-08:00Changes And Happy New Year<div align="center">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Well, I finally did it. I finally changed my logo and the color on my etsy shop, my blog, my twitter account and facebook. Finally! It’s something that I have been wanting to do for a long time, I think almost a year, it’s been in the back of my mind, to change it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Here’s my old logo</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">But after taking a poll, kind of my own informative questioning on Facebook and on Etsy, I found that nobody really knows what this is. I’ve been told many different things about what people thought it looked like, from scary eyes from an arabian nights movie to a ninja knitting. (It’s suppose to be a human giant letter “Z” knitting). Most people don’t even call me by my full name, they just call me “Z”, so that’s kind of where the idea of the logo has come from. But like I mentioned earlier, nobody knows what it looks like. But not only that, I’ve kind of moved on from this logo. It’s kind of hard to explain. I’ve moved on from the logo and the colors as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anyway, it’s kind of silly, to be so wishy washy on something so silly and simple and inconsequential as a logo, but that’s where I was at. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Happy New Year to everybody!!!!</span></div>
Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-54989302047942164312012-12-24T20:21:00.001-08:002012-12-24T20:21:47.010-08:00Merry Christmas And Crochet Cluster Beanie<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>This is what I have made with the yarn so far. I’m thinking maybe I can knit a scarf to go with it, and then maybe crochet some fingerless gloves. I crocheted some gloves before, but I had messed up on them, so I never finished the second pair. They didn’t turn out exactly like what the directions called for, but hopefully I will do better this second time around.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>By the way, Merry Christmas everybody. I hope all of you have a blessed Christmas and New Year</em></span></div>
Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-35007217752867336912012-12-18T08:43:00.000-08:002012-12-18T08:45:43.287-08:00All That Glitters Ain’t Gold<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I bought this thread at Michael’s a few weeks back. Thinking that I can use this to add some sparkle and glitter to my yarn. Oh my goodness, what a headache, honestly. I’m not writing this to put down this particular product, just maybe as I type this and somebody reads this, maybe you can tell me what I’m doing wrong. This thread is so hard to work with, as far as adding it into my crocheting. If anybody has any ideas on ways to help me that would be great.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really like the color of this thread and the way it sparkles, and I will be posting again to show what I had used some of this thread for, so you can see my work. But my goodness, this is hard to work with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Any suggestions and other ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!</span></div>
Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-86740982858904078692012-11-29T11:13:00.002-08:002012-11-29T11:13:26.330-08:00Christianity And Halloween - My Thoughts (Sorry So Late)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The bible says that we are suppossed to be salts in this world. That we are suppossed to be lights in this dark world. How can we be lights in this world when we are doing the same thing that the unsaved are doing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The more I look around the more that I see Christians who don't even really seem like Christians. I know the bible says don't judge, so just pray for me. If you want to call this judging you can, I call it fruit inspecting. :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But how can you be just as tattooed up as the person next to you, and then say, I love the Lord, when the bible clearly says not to mark up your body? Don't give that excuse, "that's Old Testament" stuff. Old Testament or New Testament, it all came from God's mouth, so that means it's all true and it all needs to be followed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There really isn't alot of difference these days between a so-called Christian and a sinnner, except the Christian goes to church on Sunday and the sinner doesn't. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There's no power in the body of Christ, because Christians are doing the same thing that the world is doing. Getting tattoes. Sleeping around (fornication, for those who don't know or shacking for those who are older). Participating in Halloween. Drinking. Going to clubs and bars. The list goes on and on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(1) Are you able to draw people to Christ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let's take the first one. How can you draw somebody to Christ when you were in the club with them shacking your booty just as much as they were? Where's the difference? Where's that something special that might draw an unsaved person to the Lord?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second one, now don't get me wrong. There are alot of reasons why Christians are sick, and it's not just because you have no power in your life. There could be other reasons. But when you are in a club or a bar doing the same thing as everybody else, that's sin. How can you knowingly committ sin and then come to God asking Him to heal you? How can you knowingly sleep around and then when you catch some sexual disease, you want God to heal you, when fornication is a sin? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And finally, the third one, why would God answer any of your prayers when you don't even obey His word?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why would God heal you when just last week you had a costume on with your bag out looking for candy? He's probably trying to figure out if you really belong to Him or not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">People want to serve God how they want to, when they want to, however they want to. But the truth of the matter is, that's just not going to fly. The bible says "come from among them and be ye separate, says the Lord".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I'm writing this, I'm not saying I'm perfect, so you don't even need to go there. I'm just saying, being a Christian is being a disciplined beleiver. It's being Christ-like. Do you really think the Lord would be in a club? Does that sound like something He'd do? Trick or treating? A tatooe? Having sex with every woman He saw? You know it ain't because He didn't even get married. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Lord kept His focus on what He was put on earth to do. Dying for our sins and resurrecting on the third day. We need to keep our focus as well. Being lights in this dark world. Loving the unloveable. Being salts of the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Discourage them from participating in traditional Halloween activities (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2 Timothy 2:4</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Encourage them to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">pray</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> on a regular, daily basis (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ephesians 6:18</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">). Let them know first hand the power that we have in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">prayer</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. All Christians should know how to fight on their knees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Remind them to be alert and self-controlled (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1 Corinthians 16:13</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">; </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1 Thessalonians 5:6</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">). Give them the discipline of knowing it is their responsibility to keep watch. They, themselves, might also become casualties in the war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make certain they are prepared for battle (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ephesians 6:11</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">). Do they know the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">truth</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">? Stand on the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Word of God</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">? Have </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">faith</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">? Know the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">gospel</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">? Are they </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">righteous</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">? Are they </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">saved</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">?…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Instead of celebrating, what’s a Christian to do on </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Satan’s</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> feast day? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">PRAY</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">! Intercession and spiritual warfare should be the first item on our agenda. It is NOT a last resort!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pray that the Lord hinder the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">occult</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> rituals. For four years, I lived in a building which over looked a cemetery where occult ceremonial markings were often found. On certain occult feast days, usually between midnight and 3 a.m., I would look down into the darkness and kneel at my window binding the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">demons</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> that controlled the ceremonies. I’ll never know this side of heaven what effect my prayers had. Maybe a potential sacrifice escaped. Maybe the occultists weren’t successful in summoning their demon. Maybe a new, young recruit decided that this was not the lifestyle he thought he wanted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let your children know that this is effective warfare. They must know their </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">prayers</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> are heard and acted on by our Father. Let them know they can make a difference. Come October 31, they’ll know they have a job to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Certainly, nothing to get concerned about, right? The problem, however, lies in the billing. The Harvest Party is usually referred to as the Christian alternative to traditional Halloween hijinx. Alternative, however, implies substitute. It assumes our children need something to take the place of Halloween, since they won’t be participating in the secular and pagan celebrations. It suggests our kids are missing out on something. And indeed they are, if we allow them to spend Halloween in celebration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As a child of four, I contacted the first of many spirit guides (read: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">demons</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">) while playing with a Kindergarten classmates’ ouija board at a chaperoned Halloween party. This spiritual assault ignited an intrigue with the supernatural that culminated in my lifestyle as a practicing witch: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">divination</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">necromancy</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, channeling, astrology, psychic ability, and spell working. It wasn’t until I was twenty that I met the real </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jesus Christ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, and was released from the trap that </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Satan</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> had set for this young prisoner of war sixteen years earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are too many casualities on Halloween and far too few troops fighing the enemy. Instead of partying on Halloween, teach your children how to fight. Keep them aware that the fight isn’t against </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">occultists</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, non-Christians, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Christians</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> who feel differently than we about Halloween, or institutions that promote Halloween, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers or </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">darkness</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ephesians 6:12</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="azure">T</span>he October 31st holiday that we today know as Halloween has strong roots in paganism and is closely connected with worship of the Enemy of this world, </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Satan</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. It is a holiday that generally glorifies the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">dark things</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> of this world, rather than the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">light of Jesus Christ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, The </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Truth</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have you noticed how costumes and masks are getting generally more bloody, gory, and depraved each year? Unfortunately, the gruesome and grotesque and the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">occult</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> are increasingly glorified in American society, not only on Halloween, but throughout the year in frequent horror movies and television programs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My family does not celebrate it or participate in it. We do not believe that our children are “missing out,” and neither do they. Other days are used for costumes and parties. Happily, all of our children have </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">accepted Jesus Christ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> as their personal </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Savior</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. We have found that Halloween provides an excellent time to remind our children that, as Christians, we are different, and not of this world (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Heb. 11:13-16</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">; </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1 Pet. 2:11</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What about </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">church</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Harvest Festivals” held on October 31? Although we understand the rational and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">good</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> intentions behind them, we don’t think they are the best approach. Our family tends to agree with the author of an article called “</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Are ‘Harvest Parties’ for Christians?</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">” (written by a self-avowed former </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">witch</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and now active Christian). Harvest parties on October 31 tend to assume that “our children need something to take the place of Halloween, since they won’t be participating in the secular and pagan celebrations. It suggests our kids are missing out on something. And indeed they are, if we allow them to spend Halloween in celebration.” There are better things to do on Halloween than partying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also, we need to teach our children that “the fight isn’t against </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">occultists</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, non-Christians, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Christians</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> who feel differently than we about Halloween, or institutions that promote Halloween, but” “against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">darkness</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> of this age, against </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">spiritual hosts of wickedness</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> in the heavenly places” (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ephesians 6:12</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, NKJV).</span></div>
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Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-92038640670678907642012-10-17T07:36:00.001-07:002012-10-17T07:36:09.115-07:00Yarn Bombing In Seattle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I didn't know you could get fined for yarn bombing.</div>
Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-52408249452089903872012-10-11T13:46:00.000-07:002012-10-11T13:46:35.460-07:00Crochet: Backpack<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is what has come of my backpack so far. It’s not really shaping up as I thought. I probably didn’t need to use two skeins of yarn at the same time. Using one would have been okay. <br />
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I’m actually a little bit farther than the pictures. I’ve already decreased at the top, and also made the part where the drawstring of this bag will be. Now I’m just doing one row of 2 single crochets, and then I will bind off. And then make my tie and then add it to the bag as a drawstring. Hope that made sense.</div>
Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-14746016388741330462012-10-04T19:35:00.004-07:002012-10-04T19:35:43.648-07:00Hoorayyy!! - Carl's Jr!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click this link. And may I say two thumbs up for Carl's Jr. At least for now.</span></div>
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Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-39052346548123598162012-09-21T15:44:00.001-07:002012-09-21T15:44:20.714-07:00Foto Friday: September 21, 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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California is such a wonderful state. When you just stop and look at nature all around, it’s really beautiful what God has created. I took a picture of these hills one day. Really nice.</div>
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I suppose it’s just like in life, I have my ups and downs. My lows and my highs. But isn’t it great to know that troubles don’t last always. You may be down now, but just wait a while, and things will be back up again.</div>
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Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-35487410020201973812012-09-20T00:03:00.001-07:002012-09-20T00:03:37.180-07:00Grrrrrr!!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You know what else I don't like? Those darn Carl's Jr. commercials!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's 12 o'clock midnight, so this is all I can think of right now. I'm sleepy actually, so really these are the only things I can think of right now.</span></div>
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Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-47307468254490389482012-09-14T23:16:00.002-07:002012-09-14T23:18:59.309-07:00Foto Friday<p align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em>Nothing really interesting happened this week. I took a few pictures of what I saw on my walk.</em></span></p><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em> </em></span></div><p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-cl5KHuc2ikE/UFQdNVw6BbI/AAAAAAAAA5I/Jz-w8moHkag/s1600-h/IMG_20120914_101224%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em><img style="border: 0px currentColor; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;" title="IMG_20120914_101224" border="0" alt="IMG_20120914_101224" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Qew-LD9vh5A/UFQdN68J3sI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/iYXqBe8QUbs/IMG_20120914_101224_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="184" height="244" /></em></span></a></p><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em> </em></span></div><p align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em>I drank some of this on my walk. I thought it might be healthier than a soda, but I looked on the back of the label, at the ingredients. 44 grams of sugar!! </em></span></p><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em> </em></span></div><p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-pH3eKwI6Pu4/UFQdOdOyocI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/61J4kYBEEVA/s1600-h/IMG_20120914_093903%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em><img style="border: 0px currentColor; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;" title="IMG_20120914_093903" border="0" alt="IMG_20120914_093903" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-r8xP1g_fi4c/UFQdOj9mP_I/AAAAAAAAA5g/eP9lUqwmcTw/IMG_20120914_093903_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></em></span></a></p><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em> </em></span></div><p align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em>I took a picture of this tree as I was walking. It caught my eye because the plant is growing from the rock, at least that’s what it seemed like. </em></span></p><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em> </em></span></div><p align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</em></span></p><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em> </em></span></div><p align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em>Sorry I couldn’t add anything or interesting this week. It went by fast for me, not sure how yours was. Have a great weekend everybody.</em></span></p> <br />Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808996466463698424.post-35305558392401779862012-09-10T13:52:00.004-07:002012-09-10T14:06:38.255-07:00Freedom<div align="center"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w0jLcS0FTd8/UE5TdROBDbI/AAAAAAAAA44/nn3As6vluyE/s1600/pakistan.png"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 190px; height: 126px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5786654333521169842" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w0jLcS0FTd8/UE5TdROBDbI/AAAAAAAAA44/nn3As6vluyE/s400/pakistan.png" /></span></a></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Here's the link to the original article:</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span> </div><div align="center"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/christian-girl-granted-bail-pakistan-islam-defamation-case-075904544.html"><span style="font-family:verdana;">http://news.yahoo.com/christian-girl-granted-bail-pakistan-islam-defamation-case-075904544.html</span></a></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Christian girl arrested in Pakistan for defaming Islam was granted bail on Friday, a judge said, days after police detained a Muslim cleric on suspicion of planting evidence to frame her in a case that caused an international outcry. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Masih, believed to be 14, may be in danger if she is set free and stays in Pakistan. Her arrest last month angered religious and secular groups worldwide but protests in Pakistan attracted only a handful of supporters. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">In Muslim Pakistan, the mere allegation of causing offence to Islam can mean death. Those accused under an anti-blasphemy law are sometimes lynched by the public even if they are found innocent by the courts. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">The girl would be reunited with her family at a location that was being kept secret for security reasons, said Robinson Asghar, an aide to Minister for National Harmony Paul Bhatti. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">There were no plans to send Masih abroad, Bhatti told Reuters. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">"I am really satisfied and happy," he said. "I believe justice has prevailed." Masih was accused by Muslim neighbors of burning Islamic religious texts and arrested, but police recently said a cleric had been taken into custody after witnesses reported he had torn pages from a Koran and planted them in Masih's bag beside burned papers. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">In Masih's impoverished village on the edge of Islamabad, some said they were disappointed that she had not been sentenced. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">"This is wrong. She burned the Koran," said resident Ijaz Sarwar near the local mosque. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Nearby, Saddam Hussein, 18, expressed sympathies for the cleric accused of framing Masih. "If she is freed, the maulvi (cleric) should be freed as well," he said. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">There were conflicting accounts of how much bail would have to be paid but Masih's lawyer said it was about the equivalent of $10,000. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">MORE THAN ONE MILLION SIGN PETITION </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Activists and human rights groups say vague terminology has led to the anti-blasphemy law's misuse, and that it dangerously discriminates against tiny minority groups. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Human Rights Watch welcomed Masih's release and urged authorities to consider reforming the law. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">"This child should not have been behind bars at all. All charges against her should be dropped," the international rights group said in a statement. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">"Pakistan's criminal justice system should instead concentrate on holding her accuser accountable for inciting violence against the child and members of the local Christian community." </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">More than a million people globally have signed a petition started by Masih's father for her release. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">But despite the international condemnation, many Pakistanis support the blasphemy law. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Last year, Punjab province governor Salman Taseer was shot dead by his bodyguard for suggesting the law be reformed. Lawyers hailed Taseer's killer as a hero, tossing rose petals at him after he was arrested. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Taseer had been defending a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, who was jailed on blasphemy charges. She is still in jail on death row. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Two months after Taseer's murder, Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian, was killed by the Taliban for demanding changes to the law. Critics of Pakistan's leaders say they are too worried about an extremist backlash to speak out against the law in a nation where religious conservatism is increasingly prevalent. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Christians, who make up four percent of Pakistan's population of 180 million, have been especially concerned about the blasphemy law, saying it offers them no protection. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Convictions hinge on witness testimony and are often linked to vendettas, they complain. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">In 2009, 40 houses and a church were set ablaze by a mob of 1,000 Muslims in the town of Gojra, in Punjab province. At least seven Christians were burnt to death. The attacks were triggered by reports of the desecration of the Koran. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Two Christian brothers accused of writing a blasphemous letter against the Prophet Mohammad were gunned down outside a court in the eastern city of Faisalabad in July of 2010.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Father, In Jesus' name, Lord I pray for the young lady who was jailed for her beleif in you. Lord, I pray for all Christians, all over the world, that you would put laws in place, to let all of us serve you freely, without worry of reprisal, or jail, or even death. Lord, I pray that you forgive me for not appreciating Your Word as I should. Please forgive me for taking it for granted that I can pray in a restaurant, that I can sing a Christian hymn out in public, and that I can carry my bible openly without any fear. I pray Lord that you would help me to appreciate the freedom that I have here in this United States of America. I pray Lord that you would help me to treasure Your Word, and help me to treasure my freedom as a Christian. In Jesus' name. Amen.</span></div>Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922280985584487584noreply@blogger.com0