The Cross | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Wed, 09 Aug 2023 17:47:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg The Cross | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 Following Jesus Is Costly and the Very Best Thing We Can Do https://anitamathias.com/2023/08/06/following-jesus-is-costly-and-the-very-best-thing-we-can-do/ https://anitamathias.com/2023/08/06/following-jesus-is-costly-and-the-very-best-thing-we-can-do/#comments Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:45:04 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=68295     (I have read this meditation on the podcast above. I hope you enjoy it. Feedback welcome!)  Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life […]

The post Following Jesus Is Costly and the Very Best Thing We Can Do first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2023/08/06/following-jesus-is-costly-and-the-very-best-thing-we-can-do/feed/ 2 Every Prison has a Door… (and We Usually Have the Key!)   https://anitamathias.com/2019/06/26/every-prison-has-a-door-and-we-usually-have-the-key/ https://anitamathias.com/2019/06/26/every-prison-has-a-door-and-we-usually-have-the-key/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2019 22:01:21 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=66986      From Practice to Mastery Image Credit: https://guitarsquid.com So, not being a super-disciplined person, I’ve struggled all my adult life with a few things, surprisingly common struggles for those for whom discipline is problematic. I carry more weight than I should. Okay, I have lost 47 pounds over the last few years as I […]

The post Every Prison has a Door… (and We Usually Have the Key!)   first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2019/06/26/every-prison-has-a-door-and-we-usually-have-the-key/feed/ 10 “I Killed My Daddy’s King,” and Other Thoughts on the Cross https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/03/i-killed-my-daddys-king-and-other-thoughts-on-the-cross/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/03/i-killed-my-daddys-king-and-other-thoughts-on-the-cross/#comments Sat, 03 Nov 2012 23:31:45 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=37936 Once, in the hectic days of chess parenting, I saw a plump little golden haired girl play chess with her father, while her siblings played in the tournament. Oh, how they fell, how rapidly–his knights and bishops and rooks and even his Queen. And then, we heard her shriek of delight, “I killed my Daddy’s […]

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