silence | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sun, 28 Jan 2018 22:48:21 +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 silence | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 In Praise of Desert and Wilderness Experiences https://anitamathias.com/2018/01/28/in-praise-of-desert-and-wilderness-experiences/ https://anitamathias.com/2018/01/28/in-praise-of-desert-and-wilderness-experiences/#comments Sun, 28 Jan 2018 22:47:08 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=66810 John the Baptist, his heart and mind and spirit filled with the word of God, pregnant with his calling, does not do what we would today if we sense a calling. He does not go to the cities, to Jerusalem; he does not seek a platform; in fact, he initially does not speak at all. […]

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