Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
I am reading The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield about a demonic force called Resistance—which conspires to prevent writers writing, painters painting, composers composers, the overweight exercising… You get the picture. And here's another … [Continue reading]
A haunting passage in Carl Gustav Jung’s memoir, Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, describes a woman from whom horses, dogs and people fled, for they sensed dark guilt within her. "A lady came to my office. It was apparent that she … [Continue reading]
I am reading the story of Jacob in Genesis. God tells Rebecca who was pregnant with twins, “The older will serve the younger.” When we meet the twins in Genesis 26, Esau, “a skilful hunter,” comes in famished, and wants Jacob’s red stew. … [Continue reading]
I love this startling chapter "The Unlived Life," from Steven Pressfield's great book, "The War of Art." The rest of this post is a quote from this prescient chapter: “Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. … [Continue reading]
I In a familiar, beloved passage, Jesus gets into a boat, and “a furious storm came up, so that the waves swept over the boat.” But Jesus continued sleeping. The disciples in panic wake him up, “We are going to drown.” And he replied, ‘You of … [Continue reading]
So Jacob, running from murderous Esau whom he has cruelly and unscrupulously deceived, rests at Bethel. And in his dream, he sees a stairway between heaven and earth, with the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And … [Continue reading]
“It will be done just as you believed it would.” It sounds like some New Age, impossible, airy-fairy, feel-good but not true statement, doesn’t it? But who said it? Our wise and wonderful Saviour (Matthew 8:13). Earlier this year, I listened to the … [Continue reading]
In arid ancient Israel, access to artesian wells made all the difference between prosperity, survival, or famine. And so when God blessed Isaac so that his crops reaped a hundred-fold return (Gen. 26:12) and he became very wealthy, out of envy, his … [Continue reading]