Comments on: Christ says, “I will let nothing be wasted.” https://anitamathias.com/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:10:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Anita https://anitamathias.com/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17185 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:05:38 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17185 Thanks Steph. And welcome to my blog!

]]> By: HopeUnbroken https://anitamathias.com/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17184 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:44:28 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17184 beautiful words, beautifully written. such hope. loved this.
thank you.
steph

]]> By: Anita https://anitamathias.com/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17183 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:50:04 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17183 Hi Claudia,
I truly do believe that he can take our false starts, dead ends, and apparently wasted endeavours, even years, and make something beautiful out of them. I feel more motivated to just leave everything in his hands, successes, and more frequently, mess!! 🙂

]]> By: Claudia https://anitamathias.com/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17182 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:55:55 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17182 I needed to read that today. Thank you for sharing it Anita.

]]> By: Anita https://anitamathias.com/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17181 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:21:44 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17181 Indeed, thanks much, Ernie!

]]> By: UKViewer https://anitamathias.com/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17180 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:58:39 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17180 Thank you Anita,

It reminds me of how much I've wasted in the past. No more, now recycle everything, reuse as much as possible, or pass it on where it can be used.

Creation is to precious to waste. Thanks be to God.

]]> By: Anita https://anitamathias.com/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17179 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:55:43 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17179 Thanks Jennie and Sarah,
I guess as I was reading John 6, Jesus's statement,”Let nothing be wasted” jumped out. That is the desire of his heart, and what he desires, he can bring about.
I love how stained glass and mosaics are made out of broken things. I hope Christ will take all the loving intentions we have of things to do with or for our children, only a fraction of which are realized, and one day make something beautiful out of them–these shreds and shards of love and weakness!

]]> By: Sarah Park https://anitamathias.com/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17178 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:40:46 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17178 I think the spontaneous feeling in this poem is beautiful–I connect very deeply with this question about waste. God is so good to create out of the nothing much we so often bring Him. 🙂

And thanks for your kind words about my poems…it means so much to have a reader call them “real”! I spend too much time stressing over whether they are that… :-/

]]> By: Jennie https://anitamathias.com/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17177 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:30:02 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17177 This made me think of a certain blouse I started sewing with my daughter and never finished. It's still packed somewhere, pins in the pieces, probably too small now and out-of-date, the sewing machine long since gone. Good intentions started it, broken needles and distractions ended it. I didn't realize it was an aching regret. But as I read, God touched that place and healed me. Nothing wasted.

Thank you, Anita.

]]> By: Anita https://anitamathias.com/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17176 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:24:31 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/02/14/christ-says-i-will-let-nothing-be-wasted/#comment-17176 Thanks, Sarah. I have just visited you, and your poems are beautiful. They are real poems. Mine is a sort of blogpoem. I had the idea today as I was reading John 6, and rapidly wrote and published it. Publishing a POEM the day you write it? Heresy. I guess I am aiming in these to write the kind of poem that speaks to people at the very first reading, and offers up its riches or poverty instantly and generously!
Blessings,
Anita

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