https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:49:45 +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 https://anitamathias.com 32 32 https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/20/the-church-that-had-too-much/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/20/the-church-that-had-too-much/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:33:55 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=38791 On holiday in Ireland in 2010, I woke up from a vivid dream, which I have here written down. It’s available on Amazon.com and on Amazon.co.uk. The Church That Had Too Much Once upon a time, there was a church that Had Too Much. Now the members of this church worked very hard with great […]

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The post Decluttering: An Easy Way to Start a Virtuous Circle in Your Life first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2011/11/27/flylady-and-how-i-became-a-relatively-tidy-and-organised-housekeeper-in-mid-life/feed/ 5 https://anitamathias.com/2010/04/30/the-wisdom-of-roy-2/ Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:50:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/04/30/the-wisdom-of-roy-2/  I finally got fed up of waiting for Roy to do it and painted two rooms myself, in an amateurish way, staining my clothes, spilling paint, very uneven! But it was so satisfying. I was insufferably pleased with myself. Roy said, “Well, if THAT’S painting, why do people charge so much for it?”  But there’s no one […]

The post Hiding the Evidence of a Crime! first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2010/04/23/flylady-domesticity-and-housework/ Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:11:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/04/23/flylady-domesticity-and-housework/   Our cleaning lady from Zimbabwe is singing in rich, high voice as she cleans. She is singing worship songs; I believe I have heard the melodies before. She reminds me of Lena, our previous Brazilian cleaner who also sung as she worked. I love the sound of their singing. It has such a happy […]

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