Comments on: The Poet, the Albatross and the Christian https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/16/the-poet-the-albatross-and-the-christian/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sat, 16 Nov 2013 17:45:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/16/the-poet-the-albatross-and-the-christian/#comment-18752 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:57:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=38699#comment-18752 In reply to Joy Lenton.

Yay! I am so glad that you’re writing again, Joy!

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/16/the-poet-the-albatross-and-the-christian/#comment-18751 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:24:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=38699#comment-18751 In reply to Freda.

Thanks, Freda. I am wondering if God always has ministry for us, but the demographic and age of the people we are called to minister to changes throughout life?

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/16/the-poet-the-albatross-and-the-christian/#comment-18750 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:38:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=38699#comment-18750 In reply to Jo Amey.

If you could choose an ideal life or work day, what would you choose? Are there any tweaks you could make to help this ideal day become a reality?

]]> By: Jo Amey https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/16/the-poet-the-albatross-and-the-christian/#comment-18749 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:38:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=38699#comment-18749 I get up, I go to work, I answer the phone for other people, I shuffle paper about, I go home, I cook dinner, do washing, do ironing, maybe do some work for a foundation degree, go to bed, wonder what its all about. The next day I get up and do it again. Suspect its the same for most people.

]]> By: a_shy_mouse https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/16/the-poet-the-albatross-and-the-christian/#comment-18748 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:54:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=38699#comment-18748 very original. never thought of it like that.

]]> By: Joy Lenton https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/16/the-poet-the-albatross-and-the-christian/#comment-18747 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:59:57 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=38699#comment-18747 A beautiful poem that expresses so well the need to be in the right environment where we can be free to be creative and release the potential within. I love your description of the individual role each of us has with “the unique instruments we play in the symphony of life..”. Finding which instrument that is and being able to play in tune to produce the music within our souls may take many years or happen suddenly.
I have been on a long journey of chronic sickness where activity has been severely limited and the only tune I seemed able to muster was a plaintive, weak bleat of noise -“I’m still here”. Hidden for many years, yet now bursting forth again, was a desire to write and express myself through words, phrasing, verse. I value the opportunity and fulfilment He is giving me now to share my story. Somehow, though all may seem tangled, knotty and broken, there is a beautiful tapestry which God is weaving through the pain and struggle. His presence is still my hope and stay in life’s storms and the means of restoring and strengthening body and soul.

]]> By: Freda https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/16/the-poet-the-albatross-and-the-christian/#comment-18746 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:46:41 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=38699#comment-18746 What a wonderfully thoughtful blog entry. I’ve been kind of absent for the last few weeks and it is lovely to come back and find the question I have been trying to answer……. basically where next? And opportunities are very slowly coming along as I slowly try to respond. I am glad you are settled in Oxford and able to concentrate on your life’s work. Peace is a special gift. Every Blessing F

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/16/the-poet-the-albatross-and-the-christian/#comment-18745 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:34:49 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=38699#comment-18745 In reply to Naomi Shaw.

Hi Naomi, we are the same age!!
“a strange mix of peace with self and heightened determination to pursue more of those things, activities, moments that enrich my own soul. I long for more solitude – ‘headspace’, as I like to call it. Time to simply be. Time soaking in the goodness of our Creator Dad. Time allowing thoughts to surface, unhindered. And writing. More of that. Realising the things I value above all else and focusing on these – this is my new life’s work.”
Yes, me too–we are on similar quests!

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/16/the-poet-the-albatross-and-the-christian/#comment-18744 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:32:27 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=38699#comment-18744 In reply to Jenni.

Thanks, Jenni. Yes, definitely more beautiful in French!! Yes, I am sure God has interesting things up his sleeve for us throughout our lives, as his love and interest in us never changes or flags–and we always have a new demographic of people to love and relate to.

]]> By: Jenni https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/16/the-poet-the-albatross-and-the-christian/#comment-18743 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:40:32 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=38699#comment-18743 The poem sounds more beautiful in French. I think that we have to be flexible all our lives, to allow the Holy Spirit to lead us onward in the Journey, and in my case recently, to let others take over work that I started. Harder than I thought.
I am sure of the fact that God has something new up his sleeve for me to do though, I can almost feel it and I am excited at the prospect!

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