Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
Aslan Singing the World into ExistenceWe listened to C.S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew on our holiday in Ireland.It’s brilliant. I love the way Lewis puts literary and mythic flesh on Biblical verses and ideas—Aslan singing Narnia into being; Aslan … [Continue reading]
A view of the Blue Stack Mountains in Co. Donegal. Zoe and Irene took an hour to get to the top.Mountain hikes are the most perfect form of relaxation. The Blue Stack Mountains were unbelievably deserted. Except for my excitable family's voices, … [Continue reading]
"The Road of Excess Leads to the Palace of Wisdom," is one of William Blake’s interesting paradoxes.My husband (who, sadly, is not the most polite of creatures) sometimes says that I remind him of Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows.Mr. Toad was … [Continue reading]
On the road in IrelandWell, we’re in Ireland for the week, celebrating the end of Zoe’s A-S exams (public exams taken by 17 year olds, for my non-British readers). And we choose Ireland, because it’s slow, magical, green, and fascinating.We have … [Continue reading]
Mind, Body, Soul, SpiritPrayer ministry training at St. Aldate’s, Oxford, used this vivid illustration. Four people stood in a circle up front, arms around each other’s waists. If you tugged at one, all four came … [Continue reading]
My daughter Irene, and I. Note one source of I's happiness in her pawI am flicking through Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project, her quest for happiness through a life makeover with many small changes like going to sleep earlier, and diminishing … [Continue reading]
1) Everything starts with a good idea. And good ideas can be birthed in periods of intensive prayer. 2) There is no area of our lives which God cannot invade.Interestingly, it was a cognitive shift for me to realize that God cares about the … [Continue reading]
Image Credit I once attended a rather toxic Charismatic church in England. There was a sentence you heard rather often there, and it was, “Don’t tell anyone.” The leader’s wife (untrained, and not particularly intelligent, who proudly and … [Continue reading]