https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Mon, 16 Sep 2019 23:08:13 +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/2019/09/17/deep-peace-in-times-of-political-turmoil/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 23:07:55 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=67015 The Deep Peace of Wild Places (Iceland, August, 2019) I consciously (though sometimes unsuccessfully) try not to invest emotional energy in politics, just as I try to invest no emotional energy in sports, including the Olympics or the World Cup. Why waste energy on things whose outcome I am unable to influence? (Of course, an […]

The post Deep peace in times of political turmoil first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2015/03/10/wriggling-towards-shalom/ https://anitamathias.com/2015/03/10/wriggling-towards-shalom/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:39:53 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64088 When I find I am stressed, or distressed,  I like to pause there and then instead of going through the day with undefined, subterranean unease. I take the question to which I do not know the answer–how to be more productive perhaps. How to read more. How to help someone. How to get our business […]

The post Wriggling towards Shalom first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2015/03/10/wriggling-towards-shalom/feed/ 1 https://anitamathias.com/2014/02/24/little-bit-theology-victims-burglaries-just/ https://anitamathias.com/2014/02/24/little-bit-theology-victims-burglaries-just/#comments Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:08:13 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=58063 So my grandfather, Piedade Felician Mathias, a distinguished surgeon, had invested his life savings in gold jewellery, because gold in India then, as now, rose faster than anything else. And my grandmother, trusting and sanguine as I am, left this on her dressing table. The maid vanished–as did the gold. Everyone wanted my grandfather to […]

The post A Little Bit of Theology for Victims of Burglaries (Which, Alas, I Have Just Been) first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2014/02/24/little-bit-theology-victims-burglaries-just/feed/ 21 https://anitamathias.com/2013/10/09/one-novelists-long-journey-to-publication-a-guest-post-by-rachel-allord/ Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:16:59 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=48473 When my son was born fourteen years ago, I loved being a stay at home mom. Truly I did. And yet at the same time, something inside of me felt restless, like my creativity was slowly drying up. I figured out how to nurse with one hand and hold a book in the other and, […]

The post One Novelist’s Long Journey to Publication: A Guest Post by Rachel Allord first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2012/02/09/nothing-that-you-have-not-given-away-will-be-really-yours-the-breaking-and-blessing-of-dreams-2/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/02/09/nothing-that-you-have-not-given-away-will-be-really-yours-the-breaking-and-blessing-of-dreams-2/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:19:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/02/09/nothing-that-you-have-not-given-away-will-be-really-yours-the-breaking-and-blessing-of-dreams-2/   A mosaic in Ravenna, made of millions of broken tessarae of glass and enamel The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day: submit […]

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