In which I Spot God in Nature | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires

It was like a Church to me: Port Meadow, Oxford, at Sunset

Anita Mathias — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:40:54 +0000

I walked last night on Port Meadow. An extraordinary experience! The blazing ball of sun slowly floated into the Thames, colouring it crimson. An amazing natural event I have too often missed! Spectacular beauty lavished on anyone who would take a few minutes to observe it. Wild geese arrived honking, with a beating of wings, settling […]

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In which I am convinced Heaven will look like Kew Gardens in Spring (Photoblog)

Anita Mathias — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:23:50 +0000

Roy and I have been to Kew Gardens every week this spring. I am learning to run, and it’s a lovely place to jog, through the azalea and camellia and rhododendron, and fields of bluebells and crocus and fritillary. Our walks are usually 4 miles, but you just don’t realize how far you have done […]

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How Nature Resets our Minds and Bodies

Anita Mathias — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:27:32 +0000

The bay where St. Paul was shipwrecked, Malta. From our Christmas holiday there. I am in Corfu on holiday, mainly walking on beaches and forests, and totally resetting my mind, body and most of all, spirit!! I have excerpted two articles I read recently on the healing, restorative powers of nature on both brain and […]

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A Love Song for a World: “Beyond Everything” by David Ignatow

Anita Mathias — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:24:45 +0000

Above Everything By David Ignatow I wished for death often, But now that I am at its door I have changed my mind about the world. It should go on; it is beautiful, even as a dream, filled with water and seed, plants and animals, others like myself, ships and buildings and messages […]

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Walking by Ramla Bay, Gozo, Malta; Musing on the Eternal Abundance of God

Anita Mathias — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:22:42 +0000

I enjoyed walking today by Ramla Bay in Malta, supposed to be one of the best beaches in the Mediterranean. Oh abundance!–jellyfish on the beach, shells, and a scatter of brilliant marble-like pebbles, which, with a few swishes in a rock tumbler, would reveal their sleek preciousness. Will Rogers said, “I never met a man […]

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What Nature tells us of God

Anita Mathias — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:58:00 +0000

Romans 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power […]

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To look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room,

Anita Mathias — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Close up of cherry blossom from the paddock. Share on site of your choice … Wikio Part of the row of cherry trees we planted in our paddock in the winter of 2006 Luther famously was asked what he would do if he knew the world would end on the next day. Looking out of […]

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