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		<title>A Red Hot Passion</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people have the passion for saving animals; some have a passion for nature. God has given me a very interesting passion that really drains me emotionally and has flipped the way I view the world Most of you don’t know this, but God has put in me this passion that burns like hot coals for hurt women. I’m talking about the...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arlenehaghverdian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9073751&amp;post=1&amp;subd=arlenehaghverdian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p><span style="color:#000000;">(Please note this is the first  blog I have ever written, and </span><span style="color:#000000;">I</span><span style="color:#000000;"> am very nervous about posting. This </span><span style="color:#000000;">topic</span><span style="color:#000000;"> is intended to be for a mature audience.) </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">Some people have the passion  for saving </span><span style="color:#000000;">animals</span><span style="color:#000000;">; some have a passion for </span><span style="color:#000000;">nature</span><span style="color:#000000;">.  God has given me a very interesting passion that really drains me emotionally  and has flipped the way I view the world Most of you don’t know this,  but God has put in me this passion</span><span style="color:#000000;"> </span><span style="color:#000000;">that burns like hot coals for hurt  women. I’m talking about the hookers, strippers, porn stars, traffic,  rape, and domestic violence victims. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">I realized that I had this  passion after reading <a href="http://www.myspace.com/annielobert">Annie Lobert’s myspace testimony</a></span><span style="color:#000000;"> about two summers ago. The gripping  details of her reality really hit home as she explained the harsh truths  of what goes on in this cold world. This caused me to break down inside  with a desire to fall with my face down in front of these women and  wash their feet. Not in a sense of worship to them, but for these women  to understand their value and their beauty which radiates from the Lord  who loves them unconditionally. It was then when I realized that I am  set apart to love these women for what our culture would never love  them for: their humanity. <em> </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">I feel their pain. I sense  what they have gone through and I see it in their eyes; it’s a bond  I share with these women even though I have never even been relatively  close to what they have gone through. It’s a very deeply rooted ache  that develops at the bottom of my stomach and won’t let go until I’ve  fallen on my knees and have cried out for God to help </span><span style="color:#000000;">H</span><span style="color:#000000;">is beautiful creation.<br />
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<p><span style="color:#000000;">So why would God chose me of  all people to inherit this gift? To live with a desire, to help save  wretched women? I have no clue! But I am sure </span><span style="color:#000000;">that  it is God who has given me this desire and I pray that I will be used  in this lifetime to help save these broken women for His glory. </span><span style="color:#000000;">I have daydreamed about breaking into  brothels and strip clubs and shooting down the pimps and just shouting  “RUN, RUN, RUN!!” Or crashing into a house in Cambodia full of tiny  girls who are forced into prostitution and just hug them for their innocence.  To shatter their chains for them to be able to dance with no fear. Ahh,  these are just dreams I hope to come true one day. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">Until those glorious days (if  they even come) I will live according to my Master’s way and do everything  in my power to respect and love women.</span></p>
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<p>The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, &#8220;Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?&#8221; They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, &#8220;If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.&#8221; John 8:3-7</p>
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