Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
Writing a memoir awakens fierce memories of the past. For the past is not dead; it’s not even past, as William Faulkner observed. So what does one do with this undead past? Forgive. Forgive, huh? Forgive. Let it go. Again and again. For, after all, … [Continue reading]
Friends, I have written a new memoir. I would be so grateful for your support. It is available wherever Amazon sells books, Amazon.com, of course, as well as Amazon.co.uk. Here are some reviews from distinguished writers A … [Continue reading]
So, after Paul the Apostle's lightning bolt encounter with the Risen Christ on the road to Damascus, he went into the desert, he tells us... And there, he received revelation, visions, and had divine encounters. There he pondered on the simple … [Continue reading]
From a walk by the River Thames. I have been thinking about this sentence in the Book of Romans, “The mind controlled by the sinful nature is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and … [Continue reading]
I returned home from boarding school in Nainital in the Himalayas, aged ten, to find everything in my father’s life had changed. He, aged 56, had taken up yoga. And so our mornings became dramatic with simhasana, the lion’s roar, which punctuated … [Continue reading]
So, over the last two weeks, life, as I knew it, has been unrecognisably altered. While this is just a drop in the ocean of virus-sadness, we were about to go to Prague on holiday when the Czech Republic closed its borders to British citizens (and … [Continue reading]
He came to earth in a splash of energy And gentleness and humility. That homeless baby in the barn Would be the lynchpin on which history would ever after turn Who would have thought it? But perhaps those attuned … [Continue reading]
So, when I monitor and record my behaviour, I am far more efficient, happy, and confident that I can actually make a change. Toni Morrison said, “If there’s a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, why then you must write … [Continue reading]