Faith the pearl of great price | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:37:41 +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 Faith the pearl of great price | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 In Which Jesus Says That, For Our Sakes, He’s Glad About the Grief Which Deepens Our Faith https://anitamathias.com/2012/01/15/choosing-the-pearl/ Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:42:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/01/15/choosing-the-pearl/   “Lazarus is dead, and for your sake, I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe.” John 11  What? So you considered it worth it? That grief so shattering that we wished we too could just die. That emptiness, life robbed of its point, You were glad all that happened Just so we could believe?   […]

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