https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sat, 29 Jul 2017 09:45:06 +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/2017/07/26/even-better-than-the-alps-which-ive-just-visited/ https://anitamathias.com/2017/07/26/even-better-than-the-alps-which-ive-just-visited/#comments Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:16:33 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=66710 At Lake Konigsee, Bavaria (More pictures at the end of this post) So I’m just back from a thoroughly refreshing summer holiday, hiking in the Bavarian Alps. On the boat trip to Konigsee, a very formal bugler played his horn, and the craggy mountains echoed the tune. It was a magical moment. We hiked all […]

The post Even Better than the Alps… Thoughts on Returning Home first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2017/07/26/even-better-than-the-alps-which-ive-just-visited/feed/ 10 https://anitamathias.com/2015/11/03/on-the-one-true-diet-and-the-one-true-faith/ https://anitamathias.com/2015/11/03/on-the-one-true-diet-and-the-one-true-faith/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2015 13:50:16 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=65245 I started gaining weight around puberty, at a time when, annoyingly, I stopping gaining height.  Every few years, I’d step on the scales, and go, “OMG! Must do something.” And so I tried Weight Watchers, but counting calories made me feel a bit crazy. I tried faith-based diets, which don’t work too well on your […]

The post On The One True Diet and The One True Faith first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2015/11/03/on-the-one-true-diet-and-the-one-true-faith/feed/ 8 https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/12/decided-follow-jesus/ https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/12/decided-follow-jesus/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:16:22 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=61273 As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.  “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” At once they left their nets and followed him. (Matthew 4 18-20)   “Come follow me, […]

The post Why I have Decided to Follow Jesus first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/12/decided-follow-jesus/feed/ 6 https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/04/christ-from-philip-schaff-the-person-of-christ/ Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:07:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/12/04/christ-from-philip-schaff-the-person-of-christ/ From Philip Schaff, The Person of Christ “No biographer, moralist, or artist can be satisfied with any attempt of his to set forth the beauty of holiness which shines from the face of Jesus of Nazareth. It is felt to be infinitely greater than any conception or representation of it by the mind, the tongue, or […]

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