The most common way to ask another person's nationality is as follows: 你是哪国人？ – Nǐ shì nǎ guó rén? – What country are you from? (What is...
pictures to be used in the speaking paper part 2
I liked the part in the lesson that talked about traditions. I am going to have the girls all share a family tradition, heirloom, or something about one of their ancestors. For a little treat I brought some brownies I made from one of my favorite recipes from my mom. A recipe that I will pass down to my own children(: I just printed the recipe on the cute little brown paper bags. I am going to print one of these handouts too. I just can't decide which one??
I think its important to understand the concept of Karma, without the Western Mind. I think too often people use Karma as a threat, to warn new pagans off of potentially bad choices for fear…
Try pronouncing the words from left to right and see if you can feel where the sounds are being produced!
So this post is inspired by the pic above. It was posted by one of my facebook friends and my response was, "um.... good point!" And that led to me thinking about WHAT is marriage? Well, I am a Christian and my Christian friends would say that marriage is a holy and divinely established covenant. That the "holy" and "divinely" would exclude gay people from marriage based on the whole "and when a man lies down with a male the same as one lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination...Lev. 20:13" keeping the union from being classified as :"divinely ordered". But then, couldn't the same be held true for divorce? Why are Christians allowed to divorce? Doesn't the Bible also say, “So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate . . . And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery” (Matthew 19:6, 9). Ok, so let's take a quick peek at adultery. Exodus 20:14: "You shall not commit adultery." There you have it... number 7 on the list of the 10 commandments, the foundation of my Christian faith "you shall not commit adultery." Welp, according to Divorcerate.org, 50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce and USA Today chimed in with an article about Christians and divorce; according to National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, apparently the Christian-specific divorce rate is running at a whopping 42%. They also researched how church attendance effected statistics. My point here, PLENTY of people choose not to live Godly lives and are allowed to be married. Heck, even people who espouse living Godly lives still choose to commit sins. I personally don't believe that a union that is recognized by our government does ANYTHING to undermine the unions that I believe are ordained and appointed by God.... when they truly ARE appointed by God. I myself have been divorced and while sexual immorality played a HUGE roll in the ending of my union (yes, my ex husband cheated on me), I can also attest that I don't believe God ordered the union in the first place. So didn't I sin? And that leads to my belief in free will. I also believe that God gave us all free will and our fight to keep gays from marrying goes against the very essence of the free gift God gave us ALL. Who are we to dictate that sin, ANY OF OUR SIN should take away what God gave us? Personally my faith transcends anything worldly... INCLUDING gay marriage. A gay couple marrying does not waiver my faith or God's power in the slightest. In fact, Christian divorce does more to hurt my faith than gay marriage ever could. That is all folks.... just my thoughts for today. My thoughts are not meant to offend any of my Christian family. My only wish is that we all consider right and wrong with respect for one another. Do I believe that being gay is a sin. Yep... I sure do. But what do I really know? Do I believe that sin is worse than anything I've ever done.... NOPE!!! But I know I would NEVER want my church family to condemn me for my sins just as I hate that gay people are so condemned. Because they are gay, the church decided that they are not allowed to be legally joined... to receive certain benefits that the rest of us get...that sounds exactly like condemnation! What are Christians really showing the world? Is that really God's love, or our judgement? Are we really allowing God to be in control or are we trying to take matters into our own hands? How did Christians feel when Jesus was crucified and murdered? What if we would have stopped that ultimate sin of Jesus' murder (commandment #6 for those who do not know, "Thou Shall Not Murder")? How would anyone be redeemed? What if what we are trying to stop is something that will enrich the world? To end this abruptly and rather awkwardly, I'm really just saying please consider "What If?"
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It's been pouring rain since the wee hours of the morning. I headed into my sewing room to make the fall table runner that has been on my to-do list for a while now. The pattern is from the fall 2013 Fons & Porter's Quilting Quickly. I really enjoyed putting together the little 6 1/2" maple leaf blocks. The stem uses a neat technique where you sew down one side and top stitch the other. I used a blanket stitch and some variegated thread for the stems. I got this far in the project and realized that it will be a big table runner, Finished it will measure 21 1/2" x 51 1/2". In the top picture I haven't even put the borders on yet and it's almost too big for my table. So now the question becomes whether I keep going and make this a quilt. I will need to do three or four more rows like this one to get a good throw size. I don't need to add another project to the list right now but it sure would be a cute quilt, wouldn't it? Xoxo,
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