Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
So, yesterday, my labradoodle, Merry, who is three quarters poodle, a hunting breed, came home from her walk with Roy, tail wagging, and with a present for me… a beautiful, quite adorable rabbit--perfectly dead. I screamed! I love rabbits, and … [Continue reading]
I love travel, and I’ve had many, many magical trips over the years…Costa Rica, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, and several trips to Switzerland, Italy, France and Greece were highlights. But anyone who travels a lot knows that every trip will not … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
I’ve read that Indians catch monkeys by placing a peanut (called “monkey nut” in India) in a bottle. The monkey plunges its slender paw into the bottle, grasps the peanut, tries to withdraw its clenched paw clasping the nut, but cannot. He thrashes … [Continue reading]
Image: UNHCR “The ability to enjoy a big, spacious, abundant, open-hearted life is directly proportional to your ability to love everyone, especially those who are different from you,” Brian Houston, founder of Hillsong wrote. “We … [Continue reading]
God speaks to us, guides us, and shows us his will through the circumstances of our lives. And sometimes, through our bodies. “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
John the Baptist, his heart and mind and spirit filled with the word of God, pregnant with his calling, does not do what we would today if we sense a calling. He does not go to the cities, to Jerusalem; he does not seek a platform; in fact, he … [Continue reading]