Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
Do not bring us to the test, Jesus advises us to pray--which suggests that those who pray this may be spared much testing and temptation. But in this world, there will be trouble (John 16:33) as Jesus reminds us in his luminous last … [Continue reading]
We saw, yesterday, the surreal spectacle of the entire might of Boston Police Dept., hundreds of officers, hunting down Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a lone 19 year old teenager, whose murders and maimings at the Marathon and later were … [Continue reading]
Image Credit Late last year, I was struggling with hostility, anger, and judgmentalism towards a fellow Christian who was getting on my nerves, and walked at night listening to 1 John and James again and again on my iPod, until my grumpy heart was … [Continue reading]
Tintern Abbey Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! Wordsworth writes, as he revisits Tintern Abbey, and muses how … [Continue reading]
When I was growing up in India, letters with a foreign stamp were exciting, a window into exotic worlds. And every week, a thick envelope from Canada arrived, from my mother’s penfriend, Barbara Redlich, to whom she had written for decades, but … [Continue reading]
Today marks 3 years of blogging. I have enjoyed it, absolutely, and am glad I started. Benefits? 1 It has taught me to write easily, confidently and rapidly, which will be a blessing as I return to “real” writing. My memoir Up to the Hills, … [Continue reading]
Alice laughed. "One can't believe impossible things. "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before … [Continue reading]
At Easter time wild flowers are everywhere on Corfu -- road sides, walls, abandoned lots ... The first half are from slopes of Mt. Pandokrater, in the North East of Corfu. Many of the spring bulbs we know and love originated in the rocky hills of … [Continue reading]