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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 Keys (of the Kingdom), and Knowing Where to Cast one’s Net

Anita Mathias — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:05:59 +0000

So this summer, my husband locked us out of the motorhome, in which lay all three sets of keys, which he had hidden, in case we lost them. After some colourful and entirely justified language…I contemplated keys. Scraps of metal, smaller than one’s little finger, yet they can unlock homes worth hundreds of thousands […]

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Listening to your Body, Listening to your Life

Anita Mathias — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:55:50 +0000

God speaks to us, guides us, and shows us his will through the circumstances of our lives. And sometimes, through our bodies. “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to a deaf world,” as C. S. […]

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Biggest Losers, Grace, and Silver Linings

Anita Mathias — Fri, 27 May 2016 21:19:56 +0000

I read the New York Times’ distressing account of The Biggest Loser show. Because of their rapid weight loss, the participants’ metabolisms dramatically slowed down, as happens with any diet. Researchers discovered that, six years on, the metabolism of the contestants continued slowing down, and they continued gaining weight disproportionate to their calorie intake, their […]

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My One Word for 2015 : Joy

Anita Mathias — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:04:31 +0000

I had wanted to choose “Accelerate” as my One Word for 2014 but God impressed “Alignment” on my heart, and it proved to have been useful through a tumultuous year—a cancer diagnosis, and surgery, the death of my beloved border collie Jake from cancer, a burglary. And some nice things too… being invited to Cambodia […]

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Walking on the Waters, Looking at Jesus, in the Shadow of the Big C (who Must not be Named)

Anita Mathias — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:01:30 +0000

I had a cancer scare two and a half years ago. Fear gripped my heart when I realised the doctor suspected endometrial cancer. Fears of chemotherapy–and, perhaps worse, death. My youngest daughter was just 12. I was by no means ready to die. And I lay down, and “saw” a vision. Christ walking towards me […]

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In which Christ Writes to an Overweight Woman

Anita Mathias — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:44:20 +0000

Jesus, I am fed up of food rules and diets, and giving them up. and sabotaging myself when stress or cravings or boredom demand: “Chocolate. Crisps. Comfort foods.” Oh, and the sadness of exercise in a world of subconscious triggers, when kebabs and pizza and cookies undo all the virtue? And I am fed up, […]

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