Nature | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sun, 18 Oct 2015 09:35:06 +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 Nature | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 The Earth Belongs to Those who Take Time to Enjoy It https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/31/the-earth-belongs-to-those-who-take-time-to-enjoy-it/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/31/the-earth-belongs-to-those-who-take-time-to-enjoy-it/#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:51:35 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46633  Part II of my extended meditation on The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth. Here’s Part I. Do the meek really inherit the earth?  “The earth,” or την γην, ten gen, to the Jewish mind signified the beloved land, Eretz Israel, the promised, longed-for land of Canaan.  It was used “as a proverbial expression to denote […]

The post The Earth Belongs to Those who Take Time to Enjoy It first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/31/the-earth-belongs-to-those-who-take-time-to-enjoy-it/feed/ 1 It was like a Church to me: Port Meadow, Oxford, at Sunset https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/26/it-was-like-a-church-to-me-port-meadow-at-sunset/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/26/it-was-like-a-church-to-me-port-meadow-at-sunset/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:40:54 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46581   I walked last night on Port Meadow. An extraordinary experience! The blazing ball of sun slowly floated into the Thames, colouring it crimson. An amazing natural event I have too often missed! Spectacular beauty lavished on anyone who would take a few minutes to observe it. Wild geese arrived honking, with a beating of wings, settling […]

The post It was like a Church to me: Port Meadow, Oxford, at Sunset first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/26/it-was-like-a-church-to-me-port-meadow-at-sunset/feed/ 6 How Nature Resets our Minds and Bodies https://anitamathias.com/2013/04/05/how-nature-resets-our-minds-and-bodies/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/04/05/how-nature-resets-our-minds-and-bodies/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:27:32 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=42461 The bay where St. Paul was shipwrecked, Malta. From our Christmas holiday there. I am in Corfu on holiday, mainly walking on beaches and forests, and totally resetting my mind, body and most of all, spirit!! I have excerpted two articles I read recently on the healing, restorative powers of nature on both brain and […]

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