Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
Poetry makes nothing happen, Auden wrote despairingly. And can tweets, 140 curt characters, make anything happen? Yes, they can. * * * The precious jewels I hold in my heart, which change the way I see and think and live, are all … [Continue reading]
Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom Lead thou me on; The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead thou me on. Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me. I was not for ever thus, … [Continue reading]
I am honoured to host this excerpt from my blogging friend Kris Camealy's first book, Holey, Wholly, Holy. The best title of the year, isn't it? “We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground. Rise up and help us; redeem us … [Continue reading]
Image: Albrecht Durer's Praying Hands Prayer is conversation for all seasons, and in the January season—when the cold and fog and grey have been stealthily trying to … [Continue reading]
The tall thin Indian Runner was killed; the fat Aylesbury mourns Climbing out of our pond When I was a child, I had a huge, fat bunny, two hens, two ducks and a dog. We had a large house with an acre around it. When we bought a house … [Continue reading]
C. S. Lewis famously said, “When first things are put first, second things don’t diminish, they increase. You can’t get second things by putting … [Continue reading]
And so, I am tired and stressed and overwhelmed. Or anxious, my heart beating faster. Or I simply don’t know what to do. Or happy and at peace and joyful. And almost without realizing it, I find myself praying. In tongues. * * * How do I find … [Continue reading]
Walter Brueggemann Martin Luther King Jr. Some of us are old enough to remember the balcony in Memphis, the sanitation workers' strike, the shot that broke flesh, the loss of Martin, and then the mule-drawn wagon, and the funeral, and the riots, … [Continue reading]