Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
I recently went off routine into a funk. This had been my schedule: Wake, pray, and then read scripture, and blog about it, or whatever the Holy Spirit is bugging me about. This took about two and a quarter hours. After which I did some housework … [Continue reading]
(Roy and I were at San Gimignano, Tuscany, last month. It was a magical town. Enjoy Roy's guest post on it) San Gimignano, Italy's most visited hill town is a photographer's delight. Here are a few images to tempt you to visit if you are in … [Continue reading]
Jesus calls us to follow him. He makes no distinction between men and women. He does not call women to follow him by “being anxious and troubled” about cooking and cleaning, and men to follow him by fishing. He praised Mary, who sat … [Continue reading]
Blogging almost daily for three and a half years has led to self-awareness. I have grown bored of boasting of my weaknesses. There is a time for self-analysis, and a time for acting on that analysis, and that time came! And so I am in the … [Continue reading]
So we had guests for lunch. It normally takes me just a few minutes to get myself presentable, but I was slowed down by my bedroom which was unusually messy: unmade bed, clothes books, manuscripts and make up strewn around. Looking at it made me … [Continue reading]
18 years ago, Lori, a friend from my Ph.D programme in Creative Writing (we dropped out in the same month) published a children’s book which became and remains a best-seller. She said God gave it to her in a single morning, as she was at … [Continue reading]
A member of my small group has been invited to Buckingham Palace since her husband is going to be knighted. One needs to be invited to the Queen’s famous garden parties, or you will be politely, but swiftly, ejected. You can’t invite yourself to … [Continue reading]
Sometimes The Book of Genesis sounds both disturbing, and quite contemporary. In Genesis 34, Jacob’s only daughter Dinah is raped. In revenge, her brothers Simeon and Levi slaughter every male in Shechem, and loot it “seizing their flocks and … [Continue reading]