https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:01:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 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/2018/06/20/listening-to-your-body-listening-to-your-life/ https://anitamathias.com/2018/06/20/listening-to-your-body-listening-to-your-life/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:55:50 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=66847 God speaks to us, guides us, and shows us his will through the circumstances of our lives. And sometimes, through our bodies. “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to a deaf world,” as C. S. […]

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