Thanksgiving | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sun, 24 Jan 2016 10:32:51 +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 Thanksgiving | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 Changing the Story: Seeing the Pain of Life Through a Filter of Thanksgiving https://anitamathias.com/2012/01/08/changing-the-story-seeing-the-pain-of-life-through-a-filter-of-thanksgiving/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/01/08/changing-the-story-seeing-the-pain-of-life-through-a-filter-of-thanksgiving/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:27:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/01/08/changing-the-story-seeing-the-pain-of-life-through-a-filter-of-thanksgiving/   Image Credit  I was suddenly reminded today of a painful episode of my life, and shed a few tearsAnd then I thought of something else, and felt overwhelmingly grateful. * * * When I was a young girl and then a young woman, I had an older mentor who invested a lot in me—telling […]

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