Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
The said table, flower-filled here after my birthday party! Of late, I am trying to seek Christ’s face (2 Chron 7:14) in everything. And not to do things—little or big-- before I have sought his face, and his wisdom on the matter. Now this is no … [Continue reading]
“You have as much laughter as you have faith.” “The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.” “Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in … [Continue reading]
What do you want?Image CreditWhat do you want? John 1:37And no-nonsense, getting down to business,the first thing you ask us.in this most beautiful of books.is a question.What do you want?I am today ashamed of the smallnessof my desire.But here … [Continue reading]
Image Credit What do you want? John 1:37 And no-nonsense, getting down to business, the first thing you ask us, in this most beautiful of books. is a question. What do you want? I am today ashamed of the … [Continue reading]
Sweeter than honey; stronger than a lion (Image credit) 11 “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the … [Continue reading]
This is the irrational season When love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason There’d have been no room for the child. Madeleine L'Engle … [Continue reading]
Vermeer, Music Lesson, Until 2008, one of our greatest sources of sadness and irritation was the fact that we were rather messy and disorganised. And, as for the girls, well, the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. But we … [Continue reading]
Detail from a courtyard wall at the Alhambra (stucco above, tile below) (Thanks, Roy Mathias, for all your help with photographs and writing for this post.) Click, or right click, on an image to see a larger version. We have had wanted to visit … [Continue reading]