https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:29:55 +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/2015/03/10/wriggling-towards-shalom/ https://anitamathias.com/2015/03/10/wriggling-towards-shalom/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:39:53 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64088 When I find I am stressed, or distressed,  I like to pause there and then instead of going through the day with undefined, subterranean unease. I take the question to which I do not know the answer–how to be more productive perhaps. How to read more. How to help someone. How to get our business […]

The post Wriggling towards Shalom first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2015/03/10/wriggling-towards-shalom/feed/ 1 https://anitamathias.com/2013/08/14/the-prophet-speaks-words-before-they-are-true-peace-a-guest-post-by-heather-caliri/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/08/14/the-prophet-speaks-words-before-they-are-true-peace-a-guest-post-by-heather-caliri/#comments Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:55:45 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46779 I was so pleased when Heather Caliri, author of Dancing Back to Jesus, offered me this beautiful guest post. Thanks so much, Heather! Bedtime went awry for no very good reason. I was done after a long day. Or: I decided it was a long day, and absolved myself from using kind words and polite […]

The post The Prophet Speaks Words Before They are True: Peace! (A Guest Post by Heather Caliri) first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2013/08/14/the-prophet-speaks-words-before-they-are-true-peace-a-guest-post-by-heather-caliri/feed/ 2 https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/08/at-the-still-point-of-the-turning-world-the-land-of-prayer/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/08/at-the-still-point-of-the-turning-world-the-land-of-prayer/#comments Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:58:17 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=40185 In 2003, Hurricane Isabel passed over Williamsburg, Virginia where I lived for 12 years. Kingsmill, our neighbourhood, was particularly badly hit—we had, well, hurricane force winds buffet us for nearly 12 hours. The lights went out. Trees crashed on the roof, and broke the girls’ newly built tree house and playhouse. The laptops failed; there […]

The post In Which I Learn to Return to the Quiet Land of Prayer when I am Stressed first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/08/at-the-still-point-of-the-turning-world-the-land-of-prayer/feed/ 5 https://anitamathias.com/2010/04/22/living-with-margins/ Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:32:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/04/22/living-with-margins/   Around the time, we turned 40, we met our pastor for counselling, who told us that he had experienced a definite slow-down around the time, he turned 40, and had begun to build in margins. For instance, we took time off before and after every trip. We had never lived with margins. Crazy about […]

The post Living with Margins first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2010/04/22/prescription-for-peace/ Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:20:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/04/22/prescription-for-peace/ Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.  6Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your […]

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