https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:29:08 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg https://anitamathias.com 32 32 https://anitamathias.com/2019/11/11/an-autobiography-in-five-chapters-and-avoiding-habitual-holes/ https://anitamathias.com/2019/11/11/an-autobiography-in-five-chapters-and-avoiding-habitual-holes/#comments Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:18:39 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=67072  (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 […]

The post “An Autobiography in Five Chapters” and Avoiding Habitual Holes   first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2019/11/11/an-autobiography-in-five-chapters-and-avoiding-habitual-holes/feed/ 4 https://anitamathias.com/2018/09/09/on-keys-of-the-kingdom-and-knowing-where-to-cast-ones-net/ https://anitamathias.com/2018/09/09/on-keys-of-the-kingdom-and-knowing-where-to-cast-ones-net/#comments Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:05:59 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=66880   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 […]

The post  On Keys (of the Kingdom), and Knowing Where to Cast one’s Net first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2018/09/09/on-keys-of-the-kingdom-and-knowing-where-to-cast-ones-net/feed/ 4 https://anitamathias.com/2018/03/16/on-the-amazing-baptism-in-the-holy-spirit-and-its-limits/ https://anitamathias.com/2018/03/16/on-the-amazing-baptism-in-the-holy-spirit-and-its-limits/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:25:37 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=66826 John the Baptist’s preaching caused a revival, of sorts. “The whole Judaean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him.” (Mark 1:5) This explosion of popularity did not throw him off course. He did not try to maintain his momentum or his platform. He stayed focused on the Message-giver, and his message […]

The post On the amazing Baptism in the Holy Spirit–and its limits! first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2018/03/16/on-the-amazing-baptism-in-the-holy-spirit-and-its-limits/feed/ 7 https://anitamathias.com/2018/01/01/things-worth-badly/ https://anitamathias.com/2018/01/01/things-worth-badly/#comments Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:08:57 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=66787 A tyrannical statement we’ve heard as children, and said as exasperated parents: If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. Which means we might never learn or do new things, for who has margin for one additional thing? In fact, the opposite is true…anything worth doing is worth doing badly. * * * […]

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