decluttering | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 11 May 2023 16:26:24 +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 decluttering | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 Do Not Worry About What To Eat: Jesus https://anitamathias.com/2023/05/03/do-not-worry-about-what-to-eat-jesus/ https://anitamathias.com/2023/05/03/do-not-worry-about-what-to-eat-jesus/#comments Wed, 03 May 2023 14:44:22 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=68165  “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?  Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ […]

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The post Every Prison has a Door… (and We Usually Have the Key!)   first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2019/06/26/every-prison-has-a-door-and-we-usually-have-the-key/feed/ 10 The Best Way to Develop Shiny New Habits https://anitamathias.com/2013/10/17/best-way-develop-shiny-new-habits/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/10/17/best-way-develop-shiny-new-habits/#comments Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:34:21 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=48580   Blogging almost daily for three and a half years has led to self-awareness. I have grown bored of boasting of my weaknesses. There is a time for self-analysis, and a time for acting on that analysis, and that time came!   And so I am in the process of developing shiny new habits. These […]

The post The Best Way to Develop Shiny New Habits first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2013/10/17/best-way-develop-shiny-new-habits/feed/ 4 Common Grace: Or Why God Loves Classical Music, Zen Habits and The Happiness Project https://anitamathias.com/2013/01/22/common-grace-or-why-god-loves-classical-music-zen-habits-and-the-happiness-project/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/01/22/common-grace-or-why-god-loves-classical-music-zen-habits-and-the-happiness-project/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:16:20 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=41626 So I was tidying our bedroom today, putting my stack of CDs back into their cases and listening to Stravinsky, glorious music filling the room. And though I had been in a bad mood, for no good reason, ungrateful girl that I am, my bad mood lifted. I unconsciously started praying in tongues. I started […]

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The post The Church That Had Too Much first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/20/the-church-that-had-too-much/feed/ 33 In which I ponder False Starts & Dead Ends, & God says, “Come, Dance.” https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/13/in-which-i-ponder-false-starts-and-dead-ends-and-god-says-come-dance/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/13/in-which-i-ponder-false-starts-and-dead-ends-and-god-says-come-dance/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:51:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/13/in-which-i-ponder-false-starts-and-dead-ends-and-god-says-come-dance/    I set aside a few hours one day a week to declutter.My maternal grandparents left a house full of a lifetime’s stuff which neither they, nor their three unmarried children who lived at home, had ever dealt with.And the accumulation made their house seem small and cramped and dark. Oh, how much space it […]

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The post In which I am Determined to Declutter first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> Flylady, Domesticity and Housework. https://anitamathias.com/2010/04/23/flylady-domesticity-and-housework/ Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:11:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/04/23/flylady-domesticity-and-housework/   Our cleaning lady from Zimbabwe is singing in rich, high voice as she cleans. She is singing worship songs; I believe I have heard the melodies before. She reminds me of Lena, our previous Brazilian cleaner who also sung as she worked. I love the sound of their singing. It has such a happy […]

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