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Grab Christ’s Hand When You Are Sinking

Anita Mathias — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 13:20:06 +0000

Hi friends, I’ve recorded a podcast meditation, which I hope you’ll enjoy. Feedback welcome 🙂 Sometimes, the little boat of your life is tossed in the darkness, in a storm-swept lake, far from shore, It’s buffeted by waves, with the wind against it. And a dark figure looms, walking on water, and you cannot see […]

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Jesus Knows the Best Way to Do What You Are Best At

Anita Mathias — Sat, 20 May 2023 07:34:20 +0000

So Matthew records: Then Jesus got into the boat and his disciples followed him. Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so […]

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A Mind of Life and Peace in the Middle of a Global Pandemic

Anita Mathias — Mon, 04 May 2020 10:35:59 +0000

From a walk by the River Thames. I have been thinking about this sentence in the Book of Romans, “The mind controlled by the sinful nature is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit […]

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Deep peace in times of political turmoil

Anita Mathias — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 23:07:55 +0000

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 […]

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On Cancer, Declining Chemotherapy, Healing, and Future Plans

Anita Mathias — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:58:55 +0000

So hi there, I am back…back to regular blogging, back to health– physically, emotionally, spiritually and creatively. So, news of my world: I had surgery for colon cancer on November 25th, 2014, which now feels very long ago—like a bad, surreal dream. I was offered chemotherapy, which would increase my odds of being alive in […]

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In which the Afflicted are Comforted in Ways We Cannot Guess (In Memory of Kayla Mueller)

Anita Mathias — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:04:40 +0000

Kayla Mueller, an idealistic young American aid worker, was captured by the brutal soldiers of ISIS in 2013. She died 2 years later, images of her bruised face and white-shrouded body released to her parents. Her fate would echo most people’s categories of the worst thing in the world, as in Orwell’s 1984. There are […]

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On Cancer, Suffering, and the Cloud of Unknowing

Anita Mathias — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:14:01 +0000

My father once read me a terrifying Greek myth about the giant Procrustes. Everyone who visited Procrustes fit perfectly into his bed. When a guest was too tall, he cut their legs off. When they were too short, he “stretched” them till they fit. It was a one-size-fits-all bed. * * * Procrustean theology adjusts […]

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Oh, Let it All End in Worship

Anita Mathias — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:36:01 +0000

And Jacob worshipped as he leaned on the top of his staff (Gen. 47:31). And so it ends, Jacob’s long busy life of intrigue and wrestling. Ever has he schemed, manipulated and deceived to get the blessings which God intended to give him even before he was born (Gen 25:23). And his intrigues backfire–disastrously. Quite […]

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On Trusting our Work to God: Moving Upwards by Standing Still

Anita Mathias — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:20:47 +0000

Reginald Arthur, 1893, Joseph before Pharaoh Joseph is seventeen when he sees his sheaf stand up and his brothers’ sheaves bow down. When he sees the sun, moon and eleven stars bow to him. * * * Interestingly, God shows him his destiny, the end of his days, but not what he needs to do […]

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In Which I Resolve Not to Be Afraid

Anita Mathias — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 15:09:24 +0000

So the disciples row for “three or three and a half miles.” (I love these charming details, John striving to remember accurately–and how they make it easier for us to believe in the truth of these memoirs of Jesus.) It’s dark; the wind is raging; the waters are rough. And a figure looms out of […]

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