myTakes: Religion & Spirituality

I find that older people tend to be more judgmental than younger people. A new Christian will express their religion by looking for ways to improve themselves. While a jaded and close minded Christian who try to express...

There are four Spiritual Skills that will fast track your relationship to God. They Are: 1. The Skill of Humility Understanding how to be modest and secretive about your successes and virtues and to learn from others and...

To me pets are training wheels to human relationships, learning to love and care for pets, teaches you how to love and care for humans and through our pets, we learn moral values like sacrifice, loyalty and unconditional...

The Hidden Devil of Genesis and Revelation is the human ego. You must interpret the law of God on the foundation of spirit and not on the foundation of Ego. To interpret scripture on the foundation of ego, meaning the...

The bible says a living dog is better than a dead lion. One way to interpret that verse is that a small deed performed is better than a great deed only imagined and planned. A weak heart that acts out is creed is better...

Jesus said not to judge others and those who did will be punished. I can think of instances why it happened he said this: I once judged a co worker for leaving a mess on the ground and expecting me to clean up after him...

To me a lot of therapy and remedial groups are an insulting waste of resources because they teach people to engage their selfish instincts instead of granting them the dignity and self esteem of a hard and honest day’s...

1. The first rule: The Rule of Delayed Gratification The less greedy and self indulgent you are and the more you take your time, practice patience and sacrifice for the future, the more successful you will be. 2. The...

I thought I'd share some light on the topic as I feel the hijab is very misunderstood and in rarer cases, looked upon as a symbol of oppression. I will try to answer this question as best as I can as a Norwegian Muslim...

A terminally oil boy with an incurable disease and a big heart, began an enduring friendship with Oprah Winfrey through letters and emails up until the day he died. On his death bed, his last words, which his mother...

I believe you can track a person’s past and their future by looking at their desires and interests. Somebody who desires food and sensation and hates service and responsibility made choices that led to those desires....

Here I will describe three people in my circle who changed after they became rich to point out why God said money challenges your loyalties. When my cousin first came to America, her parents were poor, my uncle was...

I believe that it takes love and understanding and compassion to mature somebody into independence and self reliance. And also, that it takes cleansing through resistance and unhappiness or discomfort to remove us from...

I remember my university professor told us scientific research indicates that children are more creative than adults and that creativity always declines with age. I know that when I was a child I viewed the capacity for...

This image is not necessarily accurate because it suggests that some issues are more expansive than others and that is not how I view the issue, but all the other images I found had labels on them so I am using this one....

In my early 20s, while grappling with the difficult task of avoiding controversy in my writing, I had a dream that gave me advice about how to attract readers to my work. The message I got from the symbols in my dream is...

While attending zoom groups in my unemployment I see a daily problem on an almost constant basis which is a lack of humility. People promote themselves by discussing their good deeds when Jesus said to exact in secret....

Matthew 6:33 teaches that when you pursue first the priorities of God, and pursue second to become the type of person that God wants you to be, that he adds all other things to you, what you need, what you desire, what...

Jesus said that he desired mercy and not sacrifice meaning God is more interested in your tolerance and compassion and mercy, than He is with your sacrifice and social performance and moral correctness. I remember in my...

I remember hearing a story on tv by a bi racial woman discussing her childhood, and it was a sad story indeed. Her father was black during a time where black and white racism was rampant and he married her white mother...