Comments on: God can Extract Gold from the Griefs of the Past https://anitamathias.com/2019/02/26/god-extracts-gold-from-grief/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:01:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2019/02/26/god-extracts-gold-from-grief/#comment-63795 Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:01:20 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=66925#comment-63795 In reply to Christine Lane.

Christine, how lovely to hear from you. Thank you for the encouragement Hope all is well with you! Anita xx

]]> By: Christine Lane https://anitamathias.com/2019/02/26/god-extracts-gold-from-grief/#comment-63794 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:53:52 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=66925#comment-63794 Dear Anita I was delighted to see your name and to have news of a posting –
I have read your thoughtful study several times “with diligence and attention”.
O the human condition of perplexities, of things that can haunt us and taunt us.
Thank you for sharing this rich, challenging and inspiring composition and for
the inestimable value of reminders to seek wisdom and gain understandings.

“Whatever good God chooses.” Amen. and here faith rests.

Blessings and love,

Christine (Lane)

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2019/02/26/god-extracts-gold-from-grief/#comment-63793 Sat, 02 Mar 2019 08:48:30 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=66925#comment-63793 In reply to John MacArthur.

Yes, to view the past with acceptance is perhaps the first of the Seven Storey Mountains, am barely there. The last, amazingly, is to view it all with gratitude, which I’ve read some dying people do. Maybe one day 🙂

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2019/02/26/god-extracts-gold-from-grief/#comment-63792 Sat, 02 Mar 2019 08:43:20 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=66925#comment-63792 In reply to Loriann Schmidt.

Thanks LA. So glad to be in touch again. I am trying to wrap up a big writing project with 50+ years old concentration, so it’s taking longer than expected…so blog silence. How are you?

]]> By: John MacArthur https://anitamathias.com/2019/02/26/god-extracts-gold-from-grief/#comment-63791 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:04:46 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=66925#comment-63791 Very prescient, given my current circumstances. I’ve read this once, I shall read it again. I remember the (slightly faddish) ‘healing of memories – perhaps it is more accurate to suggest that memories are a soul’s mirror which we ultimately learn to look at without either shame, fear or weeping. for ‘temps perdus’.

]]> By: Loriann Schmidt https://anitamathias.com/2019/02/26/god-extracts-gold-from-grief/#comment-63790 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 13:57:10 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=66925#comment-63790 So glad to see you blogging again! I voraciously read this book a while back when hubby brought it home. I often joked that my 50+ year old body is reminding me of every single injury I’ve ever suffered as a child. I never knew how right I was – but not only that torn achilles tendon and the knee twist I had when I was 14, but all the emotional trauma as well. All those years of inflammation due to stress of job and life and acute trauma experiences. It all adds up. And what a wonderful way of turning all that towards God. I love reading your stuff!

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