Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
1 The Bible2 The Imitation of Christ. I read it as a teenager in school, and again when I was a novice at Mother Teresa’s. Its thinking has influenced mine. It is a book of pure devotion to Christ for Christ’s sake, regardless of rewards which Thomas … [Continue reading]
Okay, I’ve worked for two Sundays in a row to keep a deadline I had neglected in a most cavalier fashion. And so I am going to take a two day mini-retreat from 8 p.m. today to 8 p.m. on Friday. Working on Sunday is always a very bad idea. The rest … [Continue reading]
Chives in full bloom in our herb gardenWe have a hive of Buckland bees, a mild, docile breed at the bottom of our garden.A hive of bees in the garden apparently "blesses" the entire garden. The flowers pollinated are bigger and brighter. Vegetables … [Continue reading]
Do you remember Joshua’s outrageous prayer, “Sun, stand still.” On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the Lord in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand … [Continue reading]
Image Credit (Revised, updated, July 21, 2013) In a memorable scene in John Wimber’s biography, The Way it Was, a “prophetess” comes to him, saying she has a word for him from God.She sits and weeps wordlessly. After about ten minutes of … [Continue reading]
What I read yesterday as I wrote a post on the Prophet Habakkuk: Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing? 14 For the earth will be filled with the … [Continue reading]
I dislike conflict, which means I used stuff resentment until I explode. And I have trouble doing conflict with God too. I was introduced to the Charismatic Movement when I was 17, and truly do believe that one should try to praise the Lord, … [Continue reading]
I have had a busy, very extroverted, though lovely month, and so it’s been more difficult to enter the healing, renewing, transforming silences of God, as in soaking prayer.When I do enter it, I feel as if I am in a boat, pushing far away from … [Continue reading]