https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:04:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 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/2023/04/05/gods-transforming-call-to-each-of-us/ https://anitamathias.com/2023/04/05/gods-transforming-call-to-each-of-us/#comments Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:07:45 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=68105     We read in the Gospel of Matthew, that as Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon and Andrew, casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”  At once they left their nets and followed him. […]

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The post Do Not Be Afraid–But Be as Wise as a Serpent first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2023/03/03/our-failures-are-the-cracks-through-which-gods-light-enters/ https://anitamathias.com/2023/03/03/our-failures-are-the-cracks-through-which-gods-light-enters/#comments Fri, 03 Mar 2023 23:08:22 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=68061 The Book of Revelation, the final book of the Bible ends on an ecstatic note, “The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life. Maranatha. Come Lord Jesus.” Through the day, when you feel distracted, or sense […]

The post Our Failures are the Cracks through which God’s Light Enters first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2023/03/03/our-failures-are-the-cracks-through-which-gods-light-enters/feed/ 2 https://anitamathias.com/2023/02/24/the-whole-earth-is-full-of-gods-glory/ https://anitamathias.com/2023/02/24/the-whole-earth-is-full-of-gods-glory/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2023 21:01:00 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=68047   Hello, welcome to the second episode of Christian meditation with Anita Mathias. Let’s close our eyes, and detach from the world, and begin to enter the inner sanctuary of the soul. The best way of calming down is by focusing on our breath. Breathe in to the count of five; breathe out. Again. The […]

The post The Whole Earth is Full of God’s Glory first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2023/02/24/the-whole-earth-is-full-of-gods-glory/feed/ 2 https://anitamathias.com/2023/02/20/mindfulness-is-remembering-the-presence-of-christ-with-us/ https://anitamathias.com/2023/02/20/mindfulness-is-remembering-the-presence-of-christ-with-us/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2023 19:20:20 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=68039 Hi Friends, Welcome to a new podcast, Christian Meditation with Anita. This is the first episode. Over the last four years, meditation has begun to change my life. A session of meditation before I write calms and focuses my mind and helps me gather my thoughts. It is the most effective way I know to […]

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