Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
From Practice to Mastery Image Credit: https://guitarsquid.com So, not being a super-disciplined person, I’ve struggled all my adult life with a few things, surprisingly common struggles for those for whom discipline is problematic. I carry … [Continue reading]
So, a couple of years ago, almost on a whim, my husband Roy and I took an intensive eight week course in Mindfulness at the Oxford Department of Psychiatry! (and at the famous local psychiatric hospital, the Warneford!!) I didn’t really know what … [Continue reading]
One step. That’s what I like best about following Jesus. It’s difficult, it’s carrying your cross, but all we have to focus on is one step… one step forward, one step of biting your tongue, one step of empathy, one step of kindness, one step of … [Continue reading]
Our wedding portrait, 30 years ago I love this verbally rich “worship song” from the young song-writer John Mark Macmillan He is jealous for me. Love’s like a hurricane, and I am a tree Bending beneath the weight of his wind and … [Continue reading]
There is always another one walking beside you T.S. Eliot Wasteland Emmaus, by Slovenian Jesuit Marco Rupnik from HolyArt.com So, the new “Great Books” book group I’ve got together (we’re steadily reading chronologically through the … [Continue reading]
“Writing and Prayer” was published in an earlier version as “Learning to Pray,” in The Christian Century, March 22nd, 2000. Reproduced in Religion Online, and many other places. This is from my book Wandering Between Two Worlds, available on … [Continue reading]
So, yesterday, my labradoodle, Merry, who is three quarters poodle, a hunting breed, came home from her walk with Roy, tail wagging, and with a present for me… a beautiful, quite adorable rabbit--perfectly dead. I screamed! I love rabbits, and … [Continue reading]
I love travel, and I’ve had many, many magical trips over the years…Costa Rica, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, and several trips to Switzerland, Italy, France and Greece were highlights. But anyone who travels a lot knows that every trip will not … [Continue reading]