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Stinging Nettle to Butterfly Wings

Anita Mathias — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:08:13 +0000

And how, and how Could that prickly caterpillar –All bristles and danger– Feeding on the stinging nettle in my garden Become a peacock butterfly, Four shimmering iridescent eyes? My God, my God, redeemer, Even today, take my life, The years lost to self-pity, anger and sadness, False starts, wrong directions, promising trails abandoned […]

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In Which Jesus Gives Us A New Name And A New Character

Anita Mathias — Thu, 29 May 2014 17:05:33 +0000

To the one who is victorious, I will also give a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it. Revelation 2:17 And so, we heave up our cross, And follow him, Oh, not spectacularly at all. Dropping it, Meandering off course, Sometimes forgetting we had resolved To […]

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The Power to Change Comes from Christ in Us, Our Hope of Glory

Anita Mathias — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 15:25:27 +0000

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: […]

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On Magic, Moonshine, Personal Change, and Healing in the Body of Christ

Anita Mathias — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:19:17 +0000

To change, really change, is magical. And to be a Christ-follower is to change, because he is in constant motion, a strong walker, blowing like the wind, and sometimes we need to walk briskly to keep up with him on the winding roads of holiness. Change can happen dramatically, or slowly. God can speak to […]

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In Which I Decide to Forgive a Frenemy; For Nothing is as it Seems

Anita Mathias — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:10:08 +0000

The snow fell over our Oxford garden and transformed it. I sometimes look at my garden, and think it’s getting rather scruffy, and resolve to get out with shears and secateurs come spring. But then snow falls, and the garden, a little bit overgrown, much in need of a prune, is transformed. White, magical, still […]

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Sanctification, Or The Weight of Glory

Anita Mathias — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:26:44 +0000

Image Credit Relentless pressure Turns mud, clay, coal, rock, And the bones of dead creatures Into diamonds and rubies, Jewels of this earth. Ah, and when we invite him in, The inexorable one, The tireless pursuer, There is the steady pressure, Of the weight of his glory Bearing down on our laziness, […]

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