Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
The Greatest Secret in the World by Og Mandino I greeted this day with love in my heart. I praised my enemies. I thought "I love you" silently to all I met today and I loved myself enough to protect my body from overindulgence and my mind from … [Continue reading]
What's so hard about forgiveness? Partly, that it is an offence against justice. Someone has wronged us, someone owes us, and we simply have to let it go.Not a good business practice. And on the face of it, a risky relational practice.Not let it … [Continue reading]
“What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects – with their Christianity latent.”C. S.LewisInterestingly, that is the calling I have been hearing of late--"little books!",Abraham … [Continue reading]
Dante Gabriel RossettiPossible Answers to PrayerYour petitions - though they continue to bearjust the one signature - have been duly recorded.Your anxieties - despite their constant,relatively narrow scope and inadvertententertainment value - … [Continue reading]
A very pink Irene and I hiking in the Everglades National Park, Florida "Time" and "Money." Titles of two very successful US magazines. And two of most people's biggest preoccupations.And that's not a bad thing, necessarily. I know people who have … [Continue reading]
Hannah Whitall Smith's "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life." Chapter Twelve: “Is God in Everything?”“All things work together for the good of them that love the Lord.”I learned this lesson practically and experimentally long years before I knew … [Continue reading]
Psalm 19For the director of music. A psalm of David. 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night … [Continue reading]
Glory in the heavens and on earth, words. Psalm 19 Psalm 19For the director of music. A psalm of David. 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they … [Continue reading]