https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:50:43 +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/2013/07/11/in-which-christ-calls-us-to-secrecy/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/11/in-which-christ-calls-us-to-secrecy/#comments Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:17:43 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46428  “Come you apart from them and be secret,” Christ calls out to us. (Matt. 6 1-18) We live in a world governed by “the rules,” described by Brene Brown in Daring Greatly: For women, “be naturally beautiful, thin, and perfect at everything, especially motherhood. Be sweet, stay quiet; be perfect moms and wives; don’t own […]

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