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Do Not Worry About What To Eat: Jesus

Anita Mathias — Wed, 03 May 2023 14:44:22 +0000

“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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On Breaking the 22 Minute Mile, and Stumbling on Happiness

Anita Mathias — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:09:16 +0000

When I was 12 years old, I read Roger Bannister’s account of breaking the 4 minute mile, pushing himself to the outer limits of human possibility, “collapsing almost unconscious, like an exploded light bulb”. I was inspired–and astonished. Run a mile in four minutes. The thought of it still baffles me! I walked a mile […]

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How gardening fills my life with hope. And secret garden conversations with God

Anita Mathias — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:01:08 +0000

I more or less decided to buy our house, after seeing pictures of it online: it had 9 of the 10 things I was praying for. And one of these was a massive garden. Much to my husband’s annoyance, when we viewed the house, I asked to see the garden first. I fell fast in […]

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As Birds Sing Because They Must, Even So I Write

Anita Mathias — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:31:44 +0000

As long as I have a garden to muck about in, and the health to do it, I shall not mind growing old. My garden is a deep joy at the centre of my life, even though I am making peace with not being able to keep up with it: it’s an acre and a […]

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Ora et Labora: How Physical Activity helps my Creative and Spiritual Life.

Anita Mathias — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:59:51 +0000

I recently went off routine into a funk. This had been my schedule: Wake, pray, and then read scripture, and blog about it, or whatever the Holy Spirit is bugging me about. This took about two and a quarter hours. After which I did some housework and decluttering for an hour. Then gardened, another hour. […]

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The Best Way to Develop Shiny New Habits

Anita Mathias — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:34:21 +0000

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 […]

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In Which I Invest in Mental Wealth

Anita Mathias — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:27:51 +0000

So we had guests for lunch. It normally takes me just a few minutes to get myself presentable, but I was slowed down by my bedroom which was unusually messy: unmade bed, clothes books, manuscripts and make up strewn around. Looking at it made me stressed, and I realised that, when I entered it after […]

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Re-opening the Ancient Wells which will Save our Lives Right Now

Anita Mathias — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:18:29 +0000

In arid ancient Israel, access to artesian wells made all the difference between prosperity, survival, or famine. And so when God blessed Isaac so that his crops reaped a hundred-fold return (Gen. 26:12) and he became very wealthy, out of envy, his enemies, the Philistines “stopped up all the wells that Abraham had built, filling […]

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In Praise of Gardening

Anita Mathias — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:40:37 +0000

(A hellebore from my garden on Easter Sunday last year) Here’s a lyrical passage from Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Gardening provides rewards far beyond the vegetable paycheck. It gets a body outside for some part of every day to work the heart, lungs, and muscles you wouldn’t believe existed, providing a healthy balance to […]

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An Immensely Abundant Universe. Seeds as a Solution to World Hunger

Anita Mathias — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:31:22 +0000

Barbara Kingsolver’s describes her marvellously productive garden in her memoir of a gardening year, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. We spent the July 4th weekend applying rock lime to the beans and eggplants to discourage beetles, and tying up the waist-high tomato vines to four-foot cages and stakes. In February, each of these plants had been a […]

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