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Jesus Knows the Best Way to Do What You Are Best At

Anita Mathias — Sat, 20 May 2023 07:34:20 +0000

So Matthew records: Then Jesus got into the boat and his disciples followed him. Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so […]

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On Using Anger as a Trigger to Transform Ourselves

Anita Mathias — Thu, 11 May 2023 12:53:04 +0000

Dear friends, I am continuing my series of short meditations on the Gospel of Matthew. This one, the eight in the series, concludes the meditations on the sublime Sermon on the Mount. Thank you for reading along! On Using Anger as a Trigger to Transform Ourselves “Do not judge, or you too will be judged,” […]

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On Not Wasting a Desert Experience

Anita Mathias — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 14:44:20 +0000

So, after Paul the Apostle’s lightning bolt encounter with the Risen Christ on the road to Damascus, he went into the desert, he tells us… And there, he received revelation, visions, and had divine encounters. There he pondered on the simple teachings of Jesus in the context of the logic and story of the Old […]

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A Mind of Life and Peace in the Middle of a Global Pandemic

Anita Mathias — Mon, 04 May 2020 10:35:59 +0000

From a walk by the River Thames. I have been thinking about this sentence in the Book of Romans, “The mind controlled by the sinful nature is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit […]

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Silver and Gold Linings in the Storm Clouds of Coronavirus

Anita Mathias — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 17:13:10 +0000

So, over the last two weeks, life, as I knew it, has been unrecognisably altered. While this is just a drop in the ocean of virus-sadness, we were about to go to Prague on holiday when the Czech Republic closed its borders to British citizens (and BA promptly refunded us, thank goodness.) (And, probably, the […]

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On Loving That Which Love You Back

Anita Mathias — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 20:14:08 +0000

I’m reading Sarah Bessey’s “Miracles and Other Reasonable Things” sent me by her publisher for review. One thing that struck me was her distinction between self-care and self-comfort in times of sadness, stress and boredom. Bessey explains that she “numbs out in times of stress; I can use anything from food to wine to books […]

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“An Autobiography in Five Chapters” and Avoiding Habitual Holes

Anita Mathias — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:18:39 +0000

(All images taken on this summer’s memorable trip to Iceland) Earlier this year, my husband Roy and I took a mindfulness course through the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, a truly mind-expanding experience (a wonderful thing in mid-life, when we can ossify in our thoughts and habits unless we make a conscious effort to change). The teacher read […]

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On Returning Home to yourself, and The Things you Love More than Yourself.

Anita Mathias — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 18:01:26 +0000

So.. I listened to my first TED talk ever today. The amazing meditation course Roy and I took encouraged us to do something emotionally, or intellectually, or spiritually or creatively nourishing at least a couple of times a day, and this was my nourishment for the day (in addition to yoga, meditation, and a bit […]

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Finding Golden Hours in Dark Days (and Some Thoughts on Forgiveness)

Anita Mathias — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 08:53:12 +0000

I love travel, and I’ve had many, many magical trips over the years…Costa Rica, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, and several trips to Switzerland, Italy, France and Greece were highlights. But anyone who travels a lot knows that every trip will not be a slice of heaven. Things can go wrong, tempers can go wrong. So […]

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On Keys (of the Kingdom), and Knowing Where to Cast one’s Net

Anita Mathias — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:05:59 +0000

So this summer, my husband locked us out of the motorhome, in which lay all three sets of keys, which he had hidden, in case we lost them. After some colourful and entirely justified language…I contemplated keys. Scraps of metal, smaller than one’s little finger, yet they can unlock homes worth hundreds of thousands […]

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