Comments on: Walking Away from the Dreaming Spires; Walking Away from Joy https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/10/walking-away-from-the-dreaming-spires-walking-away-from-joy/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:02:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Les Miserables: The Film Akin to a Spiritual Experience | Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/10/walking-away-from-the-dreaming-spires-walking-away-from-joy/#comment-18901 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:40:48 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=40201#comment-18901 […] have them both within us, the white dog and the black dog. Choosing love and mercy gives us a life which broadens and opens out into sunlit paths. Choosing […]

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/10/walking-away-from-the-dreaming-spires-walking-away-from-joy/#comment-18899 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:56:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=40201#comment-18899 In reply to Joy Lenton.

Thanks much, Joy. Delighted you liked the blog!

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/10/walking-away-from-the-dreaming-spires-walking-away-from-joy/#comment-18900 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:56:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=40201#comment-18900 In reply to Angela Pool Funai.

And thank you for re-reminding me, Angela 🙂

]]> By: Joy Lenton https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/10/walking-away-from-the-dreaming-spires-walking-away-from-joy/#comment-18898 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:28:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=40201#comment-18898 Challenging thoughts here, Anita. It would serve us all well to “Move from the negative to the positive; from the mean streets to the golden spires and towers; from a pointless drain on my energy to being re-energised”. I love the idea of our location/address/habitation physically being compared to the place we may live mentally.
Likewise, we need to be aware of how we might clothe ourselves with the right attitudes and mind-sets instead of dressing to kill. Our words are potent weapons in dangerous hands. Not only can we speak into the destruction of another’s reputation, we can also speak stumbling blocks into existence in our own lives by believing the lies of the enemy instead of what God’s word says we are ‘In Christ’.
Time to escape to “the secret places of the Most High” for a bit of re-telling therapy.

]]> By: Angela Pool Funai https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/10/walking-away-from-the-dreaming-spires-walking-away-from-joy/#comment-18897 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:20:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=40201#comment-18897 I was just sitting here at my desk, silently festering over a too-curt email that I received from a colleague. I wondered why she had to address me so abruptly, when I haven’t done anything to wrong her (of which I’m aware, I should say). Then, I read your nudge to do a bit of “beam research” on myself, and I’m sure that I have sent a curt email or two (or half-dozen) before. Thanks for the reminder to turn to the Lord for my strength and focus.

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