Comments on: In which I Encounter the Angel of Writing https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sun, 15 Dec 2013 15:02:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-35803 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 15:02:23 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-35803 In reply to Elizabeth Jones.

Thanks, Elizabeth,and thanks for following me on Facebook. My writing journey has been SOOOO SLOW that it’s hard to imagine anyone’s journey could be plodding compared to mine. the encounter with the angel I write about here was the culmination of a couple of decades of writers’ block on a specific project!

]]> By: Elizabeth Jones https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-35652 Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:03:47 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-35652 Anita, your amazing journey makes mine sound plodding and pedestrian! I only recently found your blog and website. I’m striving to become a halfway-decent blogger. I will take a piece of your advice from another of your posts and write in my blog (matterofprayer.wordpress.com) _three_ times a week, not just two.
God’s richest blessings as you continue to blog, revise, write, revise, and write some more.
Grace and peace, Elizabeth
@chaplaineliza

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18355 Fri, 03 May 2013 08:02:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18355 In reply to Anna Esther.

I suppose God lets success tarry for some (like me) because he has important spiritual work to do in us, before success (if he ever chooses to give it to us).
Success brings its own busyness and stress, and is in a way a way of sanctification–which I would have been happy to choose, but could I have dealt with the busyness and stress?
I want to get to the place where I can accept my relative failure, praise him for it, and see what he does with my peaceful and surrendered spirit!

]]> By: Anna Esther https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18354 Fri, 03 May 2013 00:53:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18354 I just wrote something today, urging “writers” or “lyricists” to speak to the rock and not strike it (I was really talking to myself). “But oh, how I have worried it and worried about it, tried to protect it, squeeze time for it, flog it, sinned in relationships to get time and space for it, necessarily and unnecessarily sacrificed for it.” –I feel like you about writing (and music.) It seems that I just want to write & sing. I wonder when the desire was conceived. I wonder when I started wanting to write. I re-read journals and saw that at least as long as 14 years ago, I had it as a goal to write a book. I have 4 biological children, 3 adopted children and am “behind” in my career in comparison to my husband. I feel the “frantic” of not having accomplished what I want. As I’m trying to post here, three of my children are chattering in my ear, so I know what you mean by “sinning in relationships.” I’ve ghost written a book about my husband’s time at the air force academy here in the states and self published….just to “feel” like I’ve accomplished my goal. The book is truly not finished–full circle. It is hard to get ego out of what we want to believe is our gift. How do some people seem to get there so fast, arrive at where they want to be, and then where they say God was trying to get them all along? I really enjoyed reading this post. Best wishes on finishing your book. Thank you for following on Twitter! ~Anna

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18352 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:11:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18352 In reply to Jackiechater.

yeah, I went to the gym today and lifted weights for the first time in months. Feeling exhausted–or feeling the burn!!

]]> By: Jackiechater https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18351 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:58:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18351 Hi happy new year accepted you on twitter loved reading your stories 
you have a lovely kind face 
i go to body pump which is great  fun  and building musle burns more calories and gets you in shape 

]]> By: Most Read Posts in 2012 on Dreaming Beneath the Spires | Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18350 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:08:23 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18350 […] vicar Mark Stibbe give THE BEST sermon I ever heard—which was, oddly, on writing. He prayed for an impartation of the spiritual gift of writing, and I believe I received it. I came back full of excitement, and wrote much and […]

]]> By: Giving Thanks at Thanksgiving | Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18349 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:46:34 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18349 […] Fire, Toronto (the Toronto blessing church) about Zoe, which changed her outlook and ours in April. Encountering the angel of writing at River Camp in August. Learning about a praise timer, and being filled with the Holy Spirit to […]

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18348 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:55:53 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18348 Thanks muchly, Ang:-)

]]> By: Ang https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18347 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:33:20 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/27/in-which-i-encounter-the-angel-of-writing/#comment-18347 So thrilled for you! I always appreciate your inspirational thoughts and candor.

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