Nick Osale the religious writer?

Today I had this thought after returning from my morning roadwork.

A few minutes after watching the sunrise while sipping my black tea was when this thought occured to me. And it is from this thought I want to base today's letter.

The thought: RELIGION

My recent interaction with Christian community members from Kiambu county has taught me one thing: people like seeing themselves as spiritual rather than religious. Or even entirely nonreligious and more spiritual.

I know after reading Carl Jung that this is a BS take. For one reason, religion is a basic human function. We cannot just say we aren't religious people. Or we don't associate with religion. No! This is like putting a limit on our human potential.

Anyway, I believe you know about the 3 common human functions that work together to enable us to experience what is called life.

The body, the mind and the spirit.

By this I mean that we can think. We can move. We can feel.

However, reading Carl Jung and dissecting esoteric knowledge from mystic P Manly Hall have made me conclude that we cannot live without religion.

In order to function as full individuals, we must anchor ourselves to God through a religion.

Now as you know it, there are about 5 or 6 popular world religions. I am not sure which one of them is true. And I am not about to try selling you into one.

Still, I am not sure how many people out there view religion as a basic human function. Not even sure if people believe in religion these days. Because with the rise of wokeism among the last members of the millennial generation and in the majority of generation z, it is easy to see that more people are identifying as spiritual than religious.

I am not sure if people have discovered that for us to be full individuals, we need to train the 4 human functions properly together. The physical, the thinking or the mental, the feeling and the religious.

When any of these functions is neglected, the individual suffers and puts a limit on their human potential.

At this point, I believe you know some of the acts that can promote the growth of these functions.

For example:

Physical fitness, good nutrition and proper rest can help nourish the physical.

Love, kindness and gratitude can fit well into the feeling function.

Reading and writing and reflecting do well to improve the thinking function.

What about the religious function?

I don't want to assume that I know it all.

However, praying in the morning, or having breakfast with God as Shivachi Shihembekho would like to put it, is one good way to develop your religious function.

Allowing your body to go through long hours of absence of food or Fasting is another way to grow that function.

Sitting alone doing nothing and watching your thoughts come and go or Meditation is another great way to train your religious function

Since religion is what primarily anchors us to God, it is careless for humans to take pride in lacking a religion. Most careless ever when it comes from people who sing and lift up their hands while playing musical instruments every Sunday.

So I want to conclude by telling you that Carl Jung was right. Yes. Religion is a must and we cannot pretend to not need it.

Tell me which of the above religious acts you'd like to do more this week. I'll go fast. Praying. You?