myTakes: Religion & Spirituality

So this is what I got from studying the beatitudes in the book of Luke: Blessed are you who don’t promote yourselves because your promotion is the work of God Blessed are you who see the needs and address them, for you...

Here I’m quoting a Times of India article that suggests married couples in loving relationships recover from wounds faster than married couples in stressful relationships While planning today’s GAG post, I began to wonder...

The bible says a kind hearted woman gains Honour while ruthless men gain only wealth and the way I interpret that is this: 1. Those who judge others by dismissively cruel and difficult standards gain money when they work...

As a child in my pre Christian days, I heard multiple times through books and tv shows that it’s the thought that counts, and not the value of your gifts and offerings. Today I texted a friend with a digital teaching gift...

I believe the biblical secret to success is that you have to value ideas more than you value things. Justice is an idea. Knowledge is an idea. Love is an Idea. Kindness is an Idea. Wisdom is an Idea. Food is a thing....

The bible says that those who trust in the Lord will prosper but those who are greedy, those who fear social pressures, those who look to human beings for validation and acceptance, those who refuse to thank God for their...

I have known a woman for years and in the last two have seen her in zoom groups almost every week and one day she said to me “I’ve known you for two years but I still feel like I don’t really know you.” I thought her...

I had a dream months ago, where God told me, that if I trusted him, He would take the ugliness in my life and he would make it beautiful. When I was a child, my parents were too lazy to spend time with me and too bitter...

One of the most important things I learned from work was not to fight back when somebody attacks you. Jesus said it 20 centuries ago, but I did not understand how important his guideline was, until I broke his commandment...

I learned when I was 19, that sometimes God would rather change your desires than grant you your desires. Like you might pray for a good looking football player to be your husband at 15 and at 40, pray for a doctor to be...

In one of my dreams, God taught me a new law that might not be written in the bible. I’m my dream God told me that if I wanted God to help me achieve my goals, I would have to help other people achieve their goals too. My...

These are rules I learned to help me control or reject feelings of jealousy I might have towards others. They are: 1 - Learn from your competition instead of trying to deny their achievements. This will save you time and...

At the end of 2020, I purchased Jordan Peterson’s future authoring program because it was half price that week. The future authoring program is basically a conversation you have with yourself where you answer a series of...

I mentioned previously that I believed the salt was a symbol for religious sacrifice and the salt that loses its saltiness is the religious sacrifice that loses its holiness, such as the people who think the vaccine is...

When you testify about God, your testimony must be about the love and wisdom of God and not about your own pain and trauma. When you teach about God, your teaching must be about God’s kindness, friendship, caution and...

There are two Jewish musicians I used to follow on YouTube who sang about how our differences make us unique and are a cause for celebration and God has taught me to rely on the gifts and endowments He has given me and...

With the pandemic, I see friends my age in person less than 7 times a year and yet I feel less lonely now than I did when I was surrounded by people 5-7 days a week, or when I was a university student with dozens of...

When I was in between stages in my life, I had a dream that there was a wedding taking place at a banquet hall within a hospital to the far left and all the brides maids were dressed in shiny pink dresses that were almost...

In the bible Jesus breaks the bread saying that it’s his body and pours the wine saying that it’s his blood, and tells his followers to do this in remembrance of Him. To me the bread of Jesus is a symbol for the teaching...

The bible says that when you focus first on serving and honouring God and also on being kind and charitable to others, that God will worry about your physical, emotional, moral, mental, communal and spiritual needs. You...