myTakes

The poor widow giving her small donation here In one biblical story, Jesus was at the temple with his disciples and a bunch of rich rulers and pharisees were giving large donations to the temple while a very poor widow...

You have the right to believe what you want and if you believe someone has to be born in a female body to be a real woman that's your right just don't expect me to agree with it or care much for you as a person. I'd...

As a kid, I felt shame a dozen times a day cause my parents would both yell at me and tell me I was stupid or ugly or masculine or fat or weird and I was socially awkward at school leading to harassment by bullies and...

I just find it quite odd that you would let something as personal and completely unrelated to your own life, bother you. Obviously in this take I will be talking about the great age gap debate because that is what I...

I will preface by saying this is not my work, thanks to another GAGer, I just adjusted a few things . This won’t be a very long take, just a GaG short lol. Just something I wanted to quickly share with a lot of women out...

- SLEEP TAKE - If any of you people are wondering why the hell have I stopped writing takes, its because the last couple of weeks have been really shitty and I'm not in a good place. Hence, this venting take. Don't...

Most people have been called dramatic at least once in their life. Some people seem drawn to drama and others seem to love creating it. But what is drama? According to Merriam-Webster, drama is defined as a state,...

Jesus said that anybody who welcomes a child into their heart, is welcoming Jesus into their heart, and anybody who welcomes Jesus into their heart, welcomes God into their heart. The Mark 9:42 New International Version...

One of the things I learned from the SMART goals is “don’t be a hero by setting yourself to unrealistic goals or targets.” I tried to prove to myself that I was a person of my word and I forced myself to read all these...

One of my favourite songs in university was higher love by Steve W. and I think one major difference between rich churches and poor churches is the emotions they entertain, lower emotional indulgences involve the pursuit...

Jesus talks about the hypocrites who build the tombs of the prophets when it was their fathers that killed them. The way I see that verse is, he is condemning those who practice virtual signalling at the expense of the...

The sheep behaves like a hired nurse or customer service agent, he fulfills his humanitarian duty towards the needy among people and is polite and civil to the jerk that is blowing up his phone and being rude, or the...

I struggled with jealousy for a few years when people achieved many times more than what I had and got attention and respect from all the people who would not give me the time of day and I realized something this week:...

I don’t socialize very often in real life which is one reason I am online almost every day because I don’t have a car and social activities cost money but I never feel lonely for four reasons, one being online adventures,...

For years, I was lonely and even when I was surrounded by a loving church community and endless contact with friends between classes, the hole in my soul would not disappear. I now know, the void was coming from...

There are few who would argue against the merits of getting an education. The further you go, the more benefits you often find along the way personally and/or economically. Historically, denying an education has been used...

In one of Steve Harvey’s books, he says, if a guy compliments you at the gym on your fitness routine, you should say “thanks I like to keep healthy,” and not “thanks, I like to look good .” He says when you oversell your...

My friend is a teacher and she was lamenting to me how her school had recently completely shut down recess for the entire school. One of the kids from a different class had been cut by a fence that surrounded the school...

My entire life I’ve pursued crazy dreams. In university, when I started third year with a 1.0 cumulative GPA, my goal was to go to Harvard. I ended up taking another 32 half year classes and raising my Cumulative GPA from...