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Do Not Be Afraid–But Be as Wise as a Serpent

Anita Mathias — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:58:17 +0000

Today’s meditation is on not being afraid, but rather, acting with wisdom. Do not be afraid, the angel in the dream tells Joseph: Marry your fiancée, Mary, who is showing, despite your chaste restraint, for in our magical world, in which angels speak to humans, a virgin has conceived by the Spirit of God, as […]

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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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A Very Long Pregnancy: Or, How to Live in the Land of Unfulfilled Promises and Deferred Dreams

Anita Mathias — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:23:55 +0000

The early chapters of Abraham’s story make painful reading. Again and again, through the decades God promises him a child: At the great oak of Moreh at Shechem, when he was 75; at Bethel, when he lets his nephew Lot have the more fertile land; and near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, […]

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