Vermeer | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:56:57 +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 Vermeer | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 Housework as a Pathway to Prayer—with Vermeer’s Women https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/16/housework-pathway-prayer-vermeers-women/ https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/16/housework-pathway-prayer-vermeers-women/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:32:25 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=61311 You can almost hear the silence. The milkmaid is quiet, so quiet, and time is suspended as she pours  milk. The hands work while the mind thinks. Is it a life of drudgery, or is it a gift–her trivial chore a window into eternity, time to think, to pray, to look out of the window […]

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