Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
Image Credit “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was called God’s friend” James 2.23. Cool! Isn’t that the lowest bar there ever was? All one needs to do to be the friend of Him who dwells in high … [Continue reading]
Bluebells (wood hyacinths) popping upThese snowdrops have been in flower for several weeks.Tiny yellow flowers on this shrub.Please identify!!Winter aconite in the leaf litter Arum italicum -- just leaves at the moment, but produce white or pale … [Continue reading]
Listen to Eliot read, or rather chant or intone Ash Wednesday here.I append a few passages from the long (still copyrighted) poem. The new years walk restoringThrough a bright cloud of tears, the years, restoringWith a new verse the … [Continue reading]
Well, we're well and truly back from a restful, creative, contemplative break by the sea. I love the sea, and try to get there as often as I can. It renews me, and fills me with creative thoughts, and perspective. And here are a few more photographs … [Continue reading]
Image CreditI don’t believe I have given up anything for Lent (well, for the whole of Lent) since I was a novice in Mother Teresa’s convent. (Entering that convent was my teenage rebellion!)As I’ve written, I had entirely too much of Catholicism and … [Continue reading]
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]
A cheerful breakfast before a walk in the woods.A New Forest pony causes a minor traffic jamA lovely leafless gladeLots of interesting treesThe crown of a single treeThere is plenty of interest in the leaf litter.A sprig of lichenMoss growing on … [Continue reading]
Overcast afternoon at the beachThe Beach without lots of books? Are you kidding? Zoe and IreneFoam at the edge of the waterA seed headGulls swooping for foodThe beach in FebruaryTweet … [Continue reading]