https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Wed, 25 Dec 2019 07:38:56 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 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/2019/12/24/trust-a-message-of-christmas/ https://anitamathias.com/2019/12/24/trust-a-message-of-christmas/#comments Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:45:29 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=67109 He came to earth in a  splash of energy And gentleness and humility.   That homeless baby in the barn Would be the lynchpin on which history would ever after turn Who would have thought it?   But perhaps those attuned to God’s way of surprises would not be surprised.   He was already at […]

The post Trust: A Message of Christmas first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2019/12/24/trust-a-message-of-christmas/feed/ 6 https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/13/my-minimalist-and-opted-out-christmases/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/13/my-minimalist-and-opted-out-christmases/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:32:17 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=40266 There was a time when I did Christmas. Wrote and addressed a stack of Christmas cards and letters-a depressing, burdensome chore when all I wanted to do was read and write. Made family collages to enclose with them. Made Christmas cake and Christmas cookies. Set up the tree. And lights. And decorations. Bought the kids […]

The post My Minimalistic and Opted-Out Christmases first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/13/my-minimalist-and-opted-out-christmases/feed/ 16 https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/12/what-christmas-means-to-me-by-c-s-lewis-3/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/12/what-christmas-means-to-me-by-c-s-lewis-3/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:40:35 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=40242 What CHRISTMAS means to me… (From God in the dock—Essays on Theology and Ethics by C. S. Lewis) Three things go by the name of Christmas. One is a religious festival. This is important and obligatory for Christians; but as it can be of no interest to anyone else, I shall naturally say no more […]

The post What Christmas Means to Me: By C. S. Lewis first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/12/what-christmas-means-to-me-by-c-s-lewis-3/feed/ 6 https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/28/the-most-intolerable-mother-in-the-world/ https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/28/the-most-intolerable-mother-in-the-world/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:29:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/12/28/the-most-intolerable-mother-in-the-world/ Whenever I show off about my children, even privately, Roy tells me, “Well, don’t worry, you’re not yet the most intolerable mother in the world.” He is now illustrating a cartoon series on the most intolerable mothers of the world.

The post The Most Intolerable Mother in the World first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/28/the-most-intolerable-mother-in-the-world/feed/ 2 https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/26/the-nativity-by-c-s-lewis/ https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/26/the-nativity-by-c-s-lewis/#comments Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:15:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/12/26/the-nativity-by-c-s-lewis/   The Nativity by C.S. LewisAmong the oxen (like an ox I’m slow) I see a glory in the stable grow Which, with the ox’s dullness might at length Give me an ox’s strength. Among the asses (stubborn I as they) I see my Savior where I looked for hay; So may my beast like […]

The post “The Nativity” by C.S. Lewis first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/26/the-nativity-by-c-s-lewis/feed/ 6 https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/25/peace-to-men-and-women-of-good-will/ Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:30:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/12/25/peace-to-men-and-women-of-good-will/  http://www.abrahampiper.com/ One by Luci Shaw Winter, and very cold, and the night at its deepest. The politicians, as usual, double-tongued. The town chaotic, teeming with strangers. And tonight, as often in winter, in Bethlehem, snow is falling.I always love how each flake, torn from the sky, arrives separately, without sound, almost unnoticed in a flurry […]

The post Plucked, dazzling, from the eternal heavens into time… Luci Shaw, “One” first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2010/04/12/the-mother-of-god-william-butler-yeats/ Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:32:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/04/12/the-mother-of-god-william-butler-yeats/ The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Through the hollow of an ear; Wings beating about the room; The terror of all terrors that I bore The Heavens in my womb. Had I not found content among the shows Every common woman knows, Chimney corner, garden walk, Or rocky cistern where we tread the […]

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