https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:45:38 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg https://anitamathias.com 32 32 https://anitamathias.com/2023/04/25/happy-are-the-merciful-for-they-shall-be-shown-mercy/ https://anitamathias.com/2023/04/25/happy-are-the-merciful-for-they-shall-be-shown-mercy/#comments Tue, 25 Apr 2023 11:42:20 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=68147 Blessed are the merciful for they shall be shown mercy, Jesus says, articulating a law which underlies the physical universe —and human life. What you sow you reap.   I know some gentle merciful ones, and indeed, they are blessed, beloved, in demand. The kindness they sow, the thoughtfulness comes back to them with compound […]

The post Happy Are the Merciful for They Shall Be Shown Mercy first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2023/04/25/happy-are-the-merciful-for-they-shall-be-shown-mercy/feed/ 2 https://anitamathias.com/2013/10/01/beatitudes-objective-statements-reality-whether-believe/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/10/01/beatitudes-objective-statements-reality-whether-believe/#comments Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:35:23 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=48403 The Beatitudes are the blazing heart of everything Jesus taught. Once you’ve got them, once you’re living them, then you’ve begun to  “get” Jesus and the way he thinks. And I am only beginning to! For the Beatitudes to travel the longest journey in the world, from the head to the heart, is a life-long […]

The post The Beatitudes, mostly, are things we do, rather than things we are. There’s hope in that! first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2013/10/01/beatitudes-objective-statements-reality-whether-believe/feed/ 2 https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/31/the-earth-belongs-to-those-who-take-time-to-enjoy-it/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/31/the-earth-belongs-to-those-who-take-time-to-enjoy-it/#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:51:35 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46633  Part II of my extended meditation on The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth. Here’s Part I. Do the meek really inherit the earth?  “The earth,” or την γην, ten gen, to the Jewish mind signified the beloved land, Eretz Israel, the promised, longed-for land of Canaan.  It was used “as a proverbial expression to denote […]

The post The Earth Belongs to Those who Take Time to Enjoy It first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/31/the-earth-belongs-to-those-who-take-time-to-enjoy-it/feed/ 1 https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/30/the-meek-shall-inherit-the-earth/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/30/the-meek-shall-inherit-the-earth/#comments Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:28:12 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46623 I looked at the programme for “The Greenbelt Festival: Where Faith, Arts and Justice” collide, and blinked at the title of a talk: “The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth.” The description read:  Based on the story of Naboth’s vineyard as a perennial tale of land and dispossession. The presentation takes us into the temple with […]

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