gentleness | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:23:36 +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 gentleness | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 Jesus Promises Us Rest (and an Easy Yoke!) https://anitamathias.com/2023/06/05/jesus-promises-us-rest-and-an-easy-yoke/ Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:10:52 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=68228 He was the cleverest human who ever lived, a master of humour, and of literary devices such as paradox, as when he offers the weary and burdened, rest. Rest–by bearing his yoke.   Bearing the yoke of Jesus means developing the habit of checking in with him before we speak, act or commit ourselves. For […]

The post Jesus Promises Us Rest (and an Easy Yoke!) first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> The Beatitudes, mostly, are things we do, rather than things we are. There’s hope in that! https://anitamathias.com/2013/10/01/beatitudes-objective-statements-reality-whether-believe/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/10/01/beatitudes-objective-statements-reality-whether-believe/#comments Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:35:23 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=48403 The Beatitudes are the blazing heart of everything Jesus taught. Once you’ve got them, once you’re living them, then you’ve begun to  “get” Jesus and the way he thinks. And I am only beginning to! For the Beatitudes to travel the longest journey in the world, from the head to the heart, is a life-long […]

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