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On Keys (of the Kingdom), and Knowing Where to Cast one’s Net

Anita Mathias — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:05:59 +0000

So this summer, my husband locked us out of the motorhome, in which lay all three sets of keys, which he had hidden, in case we lost them. After some colourful and entirely justified language…I contemplated keys. Scraps of metal, smaller than one’s little finger, yet they can unlock homes worth hundreds of thousands […]

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Seeking a God’s Eye View of Success

Anita Mathias — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:14:14 +0000

My daughter Irene succeeding at walking. I was mentored in my thirties by a friend who genuinely knew God, but was nevertheless conservative and sexist, and made me feel guilty about my call to write which he saw as “dabbling.” He felt I should throw myself into housekeeping and childrearing, and would thereby find God […]

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My Big, Fat, Frivolous Prayer Which Made Dreams Come True

Anita Mathias — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:28:36 +0000

Towers surrounding Piazza Cisterna, San Gimignano, Tuscany. “Dreaming is a form of praying, and praying is a form of dreaming,” Mark Batterson I was wandering around Tuscany last week, loving the tiny walled cities, the watch-towers (torre), bell-towers (campanile), the warm, funny […]

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In which I discover that if you hire your spouse, you cannot so easily fire them.

Anita Mathias — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:30:00 +0000

Hot tip to all small business owners. DO NOT hire your spouse. Roy just made a really stupid, and somewhat costly, mistake, and when I told him off in no uncertain terms, just stood there, grinning happily from ear to ear, as if he had done the greatest thing in the world. ” Well then, […]

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When my Family say, “Mum, say Business,” when they want to smile for the Camera

Anita Mathias — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:58:00 +0000

Somewhat to my surprise, I have discovered that I thoroughly enjoy running our business, a publishing company. When our family wanted me to smile for pictures, they used to say “say cheese” (and once as she became daring a girl said, “Say Sex,” which requires the same smiley position of the lips). Now they say, […]

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