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Peaceful at Pentecost

Anita Mathias — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 22:16:48 +0000

Pentecost–the coming of the Spirit to a frightened and fearful huddle. It is one of my favourite Christian feasts, so hopeful… The Spirit comes not because we are worthy, often not even because we have asked him to, but because he is good, and kind, and desires to bless. He comes in his own way, […]

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Leaving “A Little Juice”—One Secret of Persisting in Running, Writing, and Living Well

Anita Mathias — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 20:35:33 +0000

Eric Liddell: When I run, I feel his pleasure. Haruki Murakami has a strange and […]

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Why I Run: A Guest Post by Jennifer Luitwieler

Anita Mathias — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:17:47 +0000

Read on and be inspired by this guest post from Jennifer Luitwieler, pictured here running in the Pittsburgh Marathon If it is true that every act is sacred, then running is my most perfect sacred act. Sometimes, running is my sacrifice, where I haul all my insecurities, inhibitions, pains and frustrations to the altar and […]

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When One Simple Change can Shift Things in Your Life

Anita Mathias — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:23:14 +0000

Me with the lovely ladies from my church, St. Andrew’s, Oxford. We’ve just done the 5K Race for Life. I have lost 47 pounds since then!! Michael Hyatt urges his readers to take up running. He says, “Just by beginning, you will feel your life begin to shift.” “Things shifting”–I heard that phrase a lot […]

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Playdates with God: Because All the World is a Wonderland: A Guest Post by Laura Boggess

Anita Mathias — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:41:35 +0000

Laura Boggess’s writing and spirituality is as outrageously beautiful as she is. I’ve loved reading about her magical playdates with God on her blog –with some envy, both for the joy and freshness of her spirituality, and for the loveliness of the idea. I am so excited that Laura is on my blog today, telling […]

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In which Christ Writes to an Overweight Woman

Anita Mathias — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:44:20 +0000

Jesus, I am fed up of food rules and diets, and giving them up. and sabotaging myself when stress or cravings or boredom demand: “Chocolate. Crisps. Comfort foods.” Oh, and the sadness of exercise in a world of subconscious triggers, when kebabs and pizza and cookies undo all the virtue? And I am fed up, […]

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Two Difficult Things by December

Anita Mathias — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:07:35 +0000

Alice laughed. “One can’t believe impossible things. “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.“ Luckily, I have only two difficult things to do before January, but they are going to […]

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Murakami’s “What I Talk about When I Talk about Running”: The Connection between the Creative Life and Exercise

Anita Mathias — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:34:27 +0000

Available on Amazon.com I am thoroughly enjoying listening to Haruki Murakami’s “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running,” as I am trying to learn to run (using the NHS Couch to 5K app.) When Murakami began to write full-time, he gained weight. “If I wanted to have a long life as a novelist, […]

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Depression and exercise

Anita Mathias — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:56:00 +0000

I remember a nice phrase in Andrew Solomon’s book on depression, “The Noon Day Demon,” which I first read in the New Yorker. That “exercise exorcised the depression from his body”. That’s exactly how it is with me. In a typical depressive pattern, I often wake up sluggish and with low mood, and gain in […]

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