https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Wed, 05 Apr 2023 19:16:52 +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/2023/03/24/change-your-life-by-changing-your-thoughts/ https://anitamathias.com/2023/03/24/change-your-life-by-changing-your-thoughts/#comments Fri, 24 Mar 2023 22:25:38 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=68090 Today’s meditation is on changing our lives by changing our thinking.   So, just before Jesus bursts on the scene in the Gospel of Matthew The no-nonsense, utterly serious John the Baptist Comes with an utterly serious message, Repent In the Greek, metanoeite, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.   The Kingdom of […]

The post Change your Life by Changing Your Thoughts first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2023/03/24/change-your-life-by-changing-your-thoughts/feed/ 2 https://anitamathias.com/2015/02/10/re-learning-beautiful-art-friendship/ https://anitamathias.com/2015/02/10/re-learning-beautiful-art-friendship/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:15:18 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=63900 The rather wonderful Stephen Fry upset the internets by telling Irish television host Gay Byrne what Stephen Fry would say to God when they eventually met up. How dare you! How dare you create a world in which there is such suffering that is not our fault? It’s not right; it’s utterly, utterly evil. Why should […]

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