Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
It finally hit me one night after the youth ministry we were in charge of. I was about to put my fist through the wall.You see, we were having a couple major changes in our lives. My beautiful wife and I were expecting our first child. The company we … [Continue reading]
When the stream of our lives Seems to vanish into desert sands,and we wonder if we've lost our way, When between our talent and output,Between our aspiration and achievement.Falls the shadowWhen we have planted much and finished littleAnd we wonder … [Continue reading]
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]