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Analysing my Experience of Prayer over the Last 19 Years

Anita Mathias — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:44:54 +0000

So I come to my time of prayer, and I am dry and distracted. My thoughts are whirling; I cannot hear God speak, and I have nothing to say. My spirit feels numb. Prayer? It’s as if you are having coffee with a friend you haven’t seen for a while, and you are so out […]

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“Thin Places,” Where the Boundaries between the Spiritual and Physical Worlds are Almost Transparent

Anita Mathias — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 11:48:51 +0000

Celtic Christians prized “thin places,” where the boundaries between the spiritual and physical world are almost transparent. Where we can sense shimmering in the physical world the just-as-real, invisible, supernatural world, charged with the glory of God, with hills ringed with angels in chariots of fire. Could God really be more present in one place […]

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Making a Difference Through Prayer and Writing: In Praise of Julian of Norwich

Anita Mathias — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:11:58 +0000

I read the papers and stress rises. So much injustice! 21 million people enslaved (14 million of them in India), land-grabbing, starvation, destruction of ecosystems, precious species going extinct, the restavek system in Haiti, slavery in Qatar, and the plight of the Palestinians. My heart sinks. I am just one girl of limited energy. I […]

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When We are Caterpillars in a Ring of Fire, and Need Rescue from Above

Anita Mathias — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:01:22 +0000

Image Credit I read a striking essay this week. Two women counsellors listened to my story. I was prayed for very gently. I was encouraged to forgive all the people I felt had done me real or imaginary hurts throughout my life. It took a long time. Eventually, I came to the last thing, and […]

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Christ Walking on the Waters, not of Gennesaret but Thames

Anita Mathias — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:16:00 +0000

Billy Bragg sings Jerusalem at Greenbelt 2011 And did those feet in ancient time. Walk upon England’s mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On England’s pleasant pastures seen! And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills? Bring me my […]

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