https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:15:41 +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 https://anitamathias.com 32 32 https://anitamathias.com/2023/09/22/dont-walk-away-from-jesus-but-if-you-do-he-still-looks-at-you-and-loves-you/ Fri, 22 Sep 2023 11:08:52 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=68352   Matthew 19: 16-26 Don’t Walk Away From Jesus, but if You Do, He Still Looks at You and Loves You   It’s a beautiful offer: Come follow Jesus on a life of divine guidance on faith-challenging and exciting adventures.   Chasing ambitions, strutting our stuff exhausts us, but the excitements of knowing the ever-fresh, […]

The post Don’t Walk Away From Jesus, but if You Do, He Still Looks at You and Loves You first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2016/06/04/on-living-life-single-hearted-and-double-handed/ https://anitamathias.com/2016/06/04/on-living-life-single-hearted-and-double-handed/#comments Sat, 04 Jun 2016 16:54:14 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=66410 I had a fascinating conversation over a church lunch with a retired British missionary who had worked in Indonesia for 45 years. He had a boyish smile, and sparkling eyes. At an age at which most people have two or three major subjects of conversation—their health; their children and grandchildren; or the general decay of the […]

The post On Living Life Single-hearted and Double-handed first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2016/06/04/on-living-life-single-hearted-and-double-handed/feed/ 6 https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/12/decided-follow-jesus/ https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/12/decided-follow-jesus/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:16:22 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=61273 As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.  “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” At once they left their nets and followed him. (Matthew 4 18-20)   “Come follow me, […]

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