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Burn-Out Vanishes When We Rediscover Purpose

Anita Mathias — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:25:52 +0000

When I blogged regularly, which I did for six years, I felt more alive, more alert, more attentive to my life, and what God was doing in it. In Frederick Buechner’s phrase, I listened to my life. I have taken a six month blogging break, and the peril of blogging breaks (or writing breaks: […]

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Living in the “Flow” of God’s River

Anita Mathias — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:38:50 +0000

Whoever seeks to save their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. (Matt 10:39) NIV. If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it. (Matt 10:39) New Living Translation. * * * Time […]

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Changing your Life with Small, Leveraged Baby Steps

Anita Mathias — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:12:00 +0000

A corner of my study. As you can see, I have too many books!! Until four years ago, Roy and I were challenged housekeepers–with lots of clutter neither of us wanted to slow down and get rid of. And when we moved from Williamsburg, Virginia to England, since Roy’s job was paying, I moved ahead […]

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First Things First

Anita Mathias — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:57:00 +0000

C.S. Lewis in his essay First and Second Things says, “When first things are put first, second things don’t diminish, they increase.” You can’t get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first. In other words, it’s the counter-intuitive paradox at the heart of the Christianity. […]

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When to Fail Quickly and Quit

Anita Mathias — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:40:00 +0000

I read this illuminating post in the Lifehacker blog.“There’s bound to be something going on in your life right now that’s worth quitting, and the commonly recited maxim that “quitters never win and winners never quit” notwithstanding, sometimes quitting really is the best option. In fact, if you find you have a tough time quitting, […]

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The Willingness to Fail and Joy

Anita Mathias — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:11:00 +0000

http://sophiafine.com/main/2008/02/ My forties have been an amazing decade for me, so far. We left America after 17 years and moved back to Oxford, England, and are very happy here. It feels like the right place for us to be. It also is a decade of experimentation, and trying several new things. […]

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We Must Prune Even the Good for Increased Fruitfulness

Anita Mathias — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:20:00 +0000

Every branch that does bear fruit, the gardener prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. John 15:2. Seems unfair, doesn’t it? In a contemporary interpretation of the Joseph story in Sun, Stand Still, Stephen Furtick refers to the pit of into which Joseph was tossed on his journey from being a shepherd boy […]

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