Comments on: On Flawed People, Perfect Art, and Happiness https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/27/flawed-people-perfect-art-happiness/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:42:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/27/flawed-people-perfect-art-happiness/#comment-61124 Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:42:48 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=61432#comment-61124 In reply to Linda.

Blessings on your blog, Linda!

]]> By: Linda https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/27/flawed-people-perfect-art-happiness/#comment-61122 Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:40:12 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=61432#comment-61122 I too will start a blog with Gods help. I have been blocked my entire christian life by
people in authority over me. Somehow they feel threatened by me and start
doing things to sabatage me. One in particular is still doing it….even though we
worked together 10 years ago, we ended up attending the same bible study. I have
realized that she has been talking negatively about my years at the center we worked
at together all those years ago, to the ladies that attend the current bible study.
While she puts me down, she glorifies herself, referring to herself as the “sweet agreeable
one” while making me out to be the bad guy. Actually, the opposite was true. I don’t
think I was the good guy, but she was the one that everyone had to walk around on eggshells
She was a tyrant to fellow workers, but as sweet as pie to the “customers”. It was all
about making herself look good to them and on paper. She was dismissed after leading only
three or four years when she was always telling everyone she met that she was sure she would
be there for a long time. The reason for the dismissal was not one that I have ever shared with
others, even my own husband to protect her reputation. But all these years later, I find she has
been sharing things with others about me, some real and some imagined. Yet to my face she is “sweet as pie”.
As christians we must be aware of “frenemies” that pretend to be real and yet are not true friends.
I have started praying even more that God will lead me to true friends and make me a true friend in return.
It’s a sorry state of affairs when all of this is going on in christian relationships. If we would all be honest
with each other and stop all the nonsense we would advance the Kingdom of God rapidly and many would
be saved.
Thank you for encouraging me as well as others that are called to start a blog. This is an idea God gave me
and I intend to use it to glorify HIM. May you and your family be blessed forever!!!

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/27/flawed-people-perfect-art-happiness/#comment-60831 Sun, 29 Jun 2014 23:24:12 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=61432#comment-60831 In reply to John MacArthur.

“They were silly like us,/Their gift survived it all,” as Auden wrote of Yeats!

]]> By: John MacArthur https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/27/flawed-people-perfect-art-happiness/#comment-60820 Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:20:14 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=61432#comment-60820 It is as if some poets have a twisted self-esteem and can really only write for themselves. The only way they can assuage the pain of the clanking chains is to pour out words on the page and if the passion is real, it somehow lubricates the poetic soul. Or, something like that.

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