Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
Irene, as a clown, aged 5 “Cutting off my nose to have more room on my face.” That’s how my daughter Irene describes one of my simple pleasures: Decluttering.The pleasure we get from owning less, from uncluttered empty space, is a simple, easily … [Continue reading]
Zoe, our 17 year old has got her A-S results yesterday (penultimate high school year exams), and—phew!!—got all As (the highest possible grade) in all 5 subjects—Philosophy, Religious Studies, English, French and Critical Thinking. She got 100% in … [Continue reading]
I am listening to Gustave Flaubert’s A Sentimental Education on my iPod as I walk. It opens with a steamboat journey from Paris: “The hill on the right bank of the Seine dropped out of sight, and another one loomed closer on the opposite … [Continue reading]
How can a Christian blogger make sure her writing is a blessing to her readers? Not every post, of course. The word “blog” is an abbreviation of weblog, a diary, and there is a therapeutic, transformational element to recording our lives in our … [Continue reading]
Dick Woodward founded and pastored both the Virginia Beach Community Chapel and the Williamsburg Community Chapel, where he remains as pastor emeritus. His Mini Bible College, available in print, audio and electronically, has been translated into … [Continue reading]
Irene's room has a rotating series of inspirational quotes I am compiling a list of blogs to recommend to my teenagers, ones they can subscribe to on Facebook—so their Facebook newsfeed has something of substance. Fun-loving Irene, 13, has … [Continue reading]
“Come follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men. At once, they left their nets and followed him.” Matthew 4:19 At once. That is the operative word. Would they have done it if they had thought about it? Written out the pros and … [Continue reading]
I set aside a few hours one day a week to declutter.My maternal grandparents left a house full of a lifetime’s stuff which neither they, nor their three unmarried children who lived at home, had ever dealt with.And the accumulation made their … [Continue reading]