Keats | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:20:02 +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 Keats | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 On Cancer, Suffering, and the Cloud of Unknowing https://anitamathias.com/2014/12/17/cancer-suffering-cloud-unknowing/ https://anitamathias.com/2014/12/17/cancer-suffering-cloud-unknowing/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:14:01 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=63523 My father once read me a terrifying Greek myth about the giant Procrustes. Everyone who visited Procrustes fit perfectly into his bed. When a guest was too tall, he cut their legs off. When they were too short, he “stretched” them till they fit. It was a one-size-fits-all bed. * * *  Procrustean theology adjusts […]

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