https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:59:22 +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/2024/01/03/do-not-be-afraid-but-do-be-prudent/ https://anitamathias.com/2024/01/03/do-not-be-afraid-but-do-be-prudent/#comments Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:58:13 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=68401 “Do not be afraid,” a dream-angel tells Joseph, to marry Mary, who’s pregnant, though a virgin, for in our magical, God- invaded world, the Spirit has placed God’s son in her as long foretold by Isaiah. Call the baby Jesus, or The Lord saves, for he will drag people free from the chokehold of their […]

The post Do Not Be Afraid, but Do Be Prudent first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2024/01/03/do-not-be-afraid-but-do-be-prudent/feed/ 2 https://anitamathias.com/2013/01/02/god-comes-to-those-who-dare-to-be-different-do-not-be-afraid/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/01/02/god-comes-to-those-who-dare-to-be-different-do-not-be-afraid/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:08:43 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=41243 And when God chose to become flesh and dwell among us, the angel wisely prefaces his glorious announcement, “You have found favour with God,” with “Do not be afraid.” You, a “virgin,” will bear a child. Do not be afraid. Oh, the looming scandal, what would people say? How many would have rejected this “blessing,” but […]

The post God Comes to Those Who Dare to be Different: Do Not Be Afraid first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2013/01/02/god-comes-to-those-who-dare-to-be-different-do-not-be-afraid/feed/ 7 https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/28/the-most-intolerable-mother-in-the-world/ https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/28/the-most-intolerable-mother-in-the-world/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:29:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/12/28/the-most-intolerable-mother-in-the-world/ Whenever I show off about my children, even privately, Roy tells me, “Well, don’t worry, you’re not yet the most intolerable mother in the world.” He is now illustrating a cartoon series on the most intolerable mothers of the world.

The post The Most Intolerable Mother in the World first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/28/the-most-intolerable-mother-in-the-world/feed/ 2 https://anitamathias.com/2010/04/12/the-mother-of-god-william-butler-yeats/ Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:32:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/04/12/the-mother-of-god-william-butler-yeats/ The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Through the hollow of an ear; Wings beating about the room; The terror of all terrors that I bore The Heavens in my womb. Had I not found content among the shows Every common woman knows, Chimney corner, garden walk, Or rocky cistern where we tread the […]

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