Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
"Whoever will rise early shall holy, healthy, and happy." Treatise on Fishing with an Angle, Dame Julianna Berners. Born in 1388, Prioress of Sopwell nunnery, near St. Alban's. Author of the first book on fishing by a woman … [Continue reading]
Jan Morris on Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles M Doughty Not many books can claim to be entirely unique, but one of them is undoubtedly Charles Montague Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta, which he wrote in 1888 when he was 45 years old. It is … [Continue reading]
The Lord Jesus has a wonderful parable about the Kingdom of Heaven being like a man who finds a treasure in a field, and in his joy he sells everything he has to buy it. Any high achievement is like the treasure in the field. You "sell" and … [Continue reading]
Irene got home yesterday from an amazing PGL weekend in Wales of canoeing, trapezing, archery, hiking... She snuggled up to me, and said, "I missed you." "Oh, did you think of home and wish you were with us?" I asked, always one for … [Continue reading]
This is a brilliant and ultimately heart-breaking essay, which is worth reading in full, reproduced below. I have put the most striking paragraphs in bold. C. S. Lewis "The Inner Ring" May I read you a few lines from Tolstoi’s War and … [Continue reading]
Jung said somewhere that busyness is not just from the Devil; it is the Devil. And the biggest downside of owning a business is the inevitable busyness. The upside is the creativity it calls forth; the buzz when one's hunches work; and the … [Continue reading]
Grant me the ability to be alone. May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses, among all growing things...and there may I be alone and enter into prayer to talk with the One that I belong to. Rabbi Nachman. … [Continue reading]
I really enjoyed My Life: A Guided Tour, autobiography of Ken Taylor, author of The Living Bible, which he self-published because he could not find anyone else to take it. This led to the founding of Tyndale House, the successful Bible … [Continue reading]