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On Checking In Before you Fly

Anita Mathias — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 18:20:52 +0000

Thingvellir National Park, Iceland I am (slowly!) learning to slow down, and say, “So, what should I do, God?” or “What should I do, Spirit?” or “What should do I do, Jesus?” And often enough, clarity comes, out of the box. I do not send the email I was about to. I change the time […]

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In Praise of Desert and Wilderness Experiences

Anita Mathias — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 22:47:08 +0000

John the Baptist, his heart and mind and spirit filled with the word of God, pregnant with his calling, does not do what we would today if we sense a calling. He does not go to the cities, to Jerusalem; he does not seek a platform; in fact, he initially does not speak at all. […]

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Peaceful at Pentecost

Anita Mathias — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 22:16:48 +0000

Pentecost–the coming of the Spirit to a frightened and fearful huddle. It is one of my favourite Christian feasts, so hopeful… The Spirit comes not because we are worthy, often not even because we have asked him to, but because he is good, and kind, and desires to bless. He comes in his own way, […]

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Sealed Orders

Anita Mathias — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 09:08:00 +0000

Sealed Orders I am reading a memoir, Sealed Orders, by the American healer and mystic, Agnes Sanford. Interestingly, I’ve just read A Man Called Peter, by Catherine Marshall, her biography of her husband, Peter Marshall, who felt that he lived under “sealed orders.” During wartime, commanding officers of ships, or squadrons operated under “sealed orders.” […]

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On Not Despising Deliverance

Anita Mathias — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:17:48 +0000

“Do not despise prophecy,” the Apostle Paul says, somewhat surprisingly. Why would we despise it? Because we tend to suspect what we do not understand? Or because prophecy can attract fools, charlatans, the unstable, and conmen seeking to gain power over others—as well as, of course, those who can genuinely tune into God? I no […]

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He Was My Champagne; Now He Is My Bread. My Changing Experience of the Holy Spirit

Anita Mathias — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:42:02 +0000

My first conscious experience with the Holy Spirit was also my most dramatic. I strayed into a Charismatic meeting at my ancestral hometown, Mangalore, India, when I was 17. My father was patronising and mildly amused, and flatly refused to take me again. And so I went to the visiting Spanish priest preaching the retreat, […]

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On Cancer, Declining Chemotherapy, Healing, and Future Plans

Anita Mathias — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:58:55 +0000

So hi there, I am back…back to regular blogging, back to health– physically, emotionally, spiritually and creatively. So, news of my world: I had surgery for colon cancer on November 25th, 2014, which now feels very long ago—like a bad, surreal dream. I was offered chemotherapy, which would increase my odds of being alive in […]

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“Thin Places,” Where the Boundaries between the Spiritual and Physical Worlds are Almost Transparent

Anita Mathias — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 11:48:51 +0000

Celtic Christians prized “thin places,” where the boundaries between the spiritual and physical world are almost transparent. Where we can sense shimmering in the physical world the just-as-real, invisible, supernatural world, charged with the glory of God, with hills ringed with angels in chariots of fire. Could God really be more present in one place […]

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God Saw the Light was Good, but He Left Darkness Too

Anita Mathias — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:28:34 +0000

In the beginning… God’s first recorded words in the Bible are “Let there be light.” And there was light. And God saw that the light was good. (Genesis 1:4) But he left darkness too. And so it shall ever be. On June 21, we have 16 hours 41 minutes of light in Oxford, England. But […]

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In which I am Surprised by “Prophetic Words” (from the Glasgow Prophetic Centre at David’s Tent Worship Festival)

Anita Mathias — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:25:23 +0000

People from the Glasgow Prophetic Centre were offering “prophetic words” at David’s Tent: An Adventure in Worship, a 72 hour worship festival I went to in August. I signed up for a 15 minute slot. I am “prophetic” with a very small p. Prophecy, as Paul writes, is a spiritual gift, a little-understood one, though […]

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