jennifer_bloom

A few days ago, I discovered an incredible Christian philosopher and motivational teacher named Alan Watts. While originally, I wanted to write my own book, I concluded that Alan Watts had said everything I had meant to say and had said it better than I meant to say it myself. Reading his books,...

On Saturday I read a 365 page book and what made it hard was the book was written 100 - 200 years ago and used a lot of old English terms not commonly used in modern conversation so I had to make around 1-3 trips to the dictionary for each page of reading and often times, the dictionaries did...

I had a dream years ago, in my dream God told me “You don’t respect me, that is why there is so much darkness in your life.” I asked God what respecting Him looks like and He said “It means focusing on the lowly and humble and not the powerful and might.” The bible says a scoffer seeks wisdom in...

There was a psychiatrist who said that 80% of obese woman were raped by male adults when they were children. This is why I say that for the average obese person that is not fat due to medical causes, their obesity is caused by a lack of love and not a lack of self-control or a shortage of good...

People think money and the ability to buy things like chocolate ice cream or designer bags or vacation souvenirs will bring them happiness, that if they are swimming in spas and drinking martinis everyday they will be happy. But rich people know that money only buys happiness when you sacrifice...

So Jesus said a good tree bears good fruit and a bad tree bears bad fruit. The tree is a symbol for faith. Some people put their faith in love and Justice and some people put their faith in material or social dominance. The way to tell whether a faith or commitment or investment or relationship...

I learned this from a co worker: An extremely good looking married man wanted to buy a card and a gift for a morbidly obese and sick unmarried co worker when the overweight cow worker was sick at the doctor’s one day and other workers also treated her very well but treated me poorly because I...

When I first became a Christian, I made the same mistake many religious people make, I thought the kingdom of God was a hierarchy and social system of descending respect and devotion based on your spiritual social status and that those who were elevated in God deserved more devotion than those...

I had a dream one time, a very inconsiderate guy was walking around with a woman who looked like me, except she was far more beautiful than me, far more intelligent and far richer. I asked the very inconsiderate guy if he had been walking around with somebody who looked like a glamorized version...

One of the reasons I am active on this site everyday is because it is a private domain for me to secretly socialize and converse. I have a very good reputation at church and with my high school friends and co workers and community friends, but I always avoid these people when they try to talk to...

There are two traits I find in every successful and genuine Christian I know, and it’s not a matter of theology or ideology: The two traits are generosity and an absence of greed. You cannot love the people of God if you are greedy for material things. You cannot love God or worship Him, if you...

I find if somebody is so obviously unfair that loving them seems harder than climbing Mount Everest, Then: Don’t contort your emotions or twist your mind into something it can’t accept to love them. Instead, focus on understanding, gaining insight into their needs and difficulties,...

I believe three qualities are taught in both religious and secular society in Asia. These three qualities are: 1. Fairness 2. Tolerance 3. Mercy North American Countries preach a gospel of self actualization and self enterprise, but it’s not always your spontaneous creativity and uniqueness that...

A lot of people think humility is self hatred or self-rejection but that is not humility. Jesus was rejected by the religious leaders, he was not rejected by his people. Humility is the civil acceptance and favourable perception of God, of others, and of your life. Like little children, we were...

Jesus says you cannot serve both money and God I’ve discussed this before but today I learned something new. God is saying you cannot serve both possession and ownership and bless and gratitude at the same time. People claim possession of their romantic partners where they try to control what...

The bible says the foolish woman is loud. She is undisciplined / unruly and knows nothin. So a fool as the bible teaches is a self gratifying person who is so consumed with pride that they cannot accept the love and forgiveness of God or the humility necessary for productive and wholesome...

1. The pitfall of jealousy and hostility. This is a hostility built around bitterness at opportunities other people have that they themselves forfeited through their complacency or wrongdoing. When another rises to claim what they threw away, they become jealous. 2. The pitfall of intellectual...

When Jesus is asked to turn stone into bread I think of how a lot of secularists deny emotional needs in favour of physical needs, the end result being either heathenism or emotional abuse. When Jesus is asked to throw himself down from the temple I think of how a lot of religious people deny...

As a Christian I forgot to pray. I thought that bible reading and service and obedience were all you needed to please God. Having not prayed for God’s people for years I became desolate insides It wasn’t until my 30s that I realized prayer was the fastest way for me to expedite my faith in God....

I remember attending a Christian event at the university and the pastor who was so good at his previous architecture job that he got hired to design the local cancer wing of the hospital, told us he quit his architectural job because his job was a dog eat dog time of position where everybody was...