Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires

Using God’s Gift of Our Talents: A Path to Joy and Abundance

Anita Mathias — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:14:50 +0000

Jesus, in his Parable of the Talents, memorably illustrates how human life and God’s kingdom work. Our life is a story we co-write with God, who hands us plot outlines: geography, gender, genetics, socio-economic position, creativity, health, personality, temperament, as well as our unique, innate gifts. God, considering our abilities, assigns us varying […]

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The Kingdom of God is Here Already, Yet Not Yet Here

Anita Mathias — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 18:27:03 +0000

(Please click the link in which I lead you through this meditation) The Kingdom of God is Here Already, Yet Not Yet Here The Son of Man will come on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. (Matthew 24:20) This knowledge hums in our bones: Our life on earth will end, and […]

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All Those Who Exalt Themselves Will Be Humbled & the Humble Will Be Exalted

Anita Mathias — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:11:06 +0000

Nebuchadnezzar by William Blake I am resuming my meditations on the Gospel of Matthew! Welcome! Please click below to let me take you through the meditation. 3 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 “Everything the teachers of the law and the Pharisees do is done for people to see. They […]

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Christ’s Great Golden Triad to Guide Our Actions and Decisions

Anita Mathias — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:03:54 +0000

Andrei Rublev, The Trinity Here’s a meditation on Matthew 22: 34-40. Do press the green button to listen. So, an expert in the Mosaic law, a Pharisee, tests Jesus: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” A mined field, a trap, for the question implied: “And which of the 613 commands in […]

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How Jesus Dealt With Hostility and Enemies

Anita Mathias — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:11:43 +0000

Christ Driving the Moneychangers from the Temple, 1626, Rembrandt It’s the Tuesday of the last week of Jesus’s life. He rampages through the commercialised temple, overturning the tables of moneychangers. He heals, he teaches; he’s hailed as […]

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Do Not Be Afraid, but Do Be Prudent

Anita Mathias — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:58:13 +0000

“Do not be afraid,” a dream-angel tells Joseph, to marry Mary, who’s pregnant, though a virgin, for in our magical, God- invaded world, the Spirit has placed God’s son in her as long foretold by Isaiah. Call the baby Jesus, or The Lord saves, for he will drag people free from the chokehold of their […]

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For Scoundrels, Scallywags, and Rascals—Christ Came

Anita Mathias — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:05:58 +0000

For Scoundrels, Scallywags, and Rascals—Christ Came Jesus came for everyone, offering us joyful life in its abundance. And he descended from many nations, tribes, peoples and languages. From Abraham, from Ur in Iraq who, impatient at God’s unfulfilled promises, raped his slave, Hagar. From tricky Jacob, who scammed his brother, Esau, out of his […]

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How to Lead an Extremely Significant Life

Anita Mathias — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:33:53 +0000

16th century icon (I’ve recorded this as a podcast, as usual. Please click the green button 🙂 How to Lead an Extremely Significant Life Matthew 20: 20-28 Jesus came from a Kingdom of voluntary gentleness, in which Christ, called the Lion of Judah, stands at the centre of the throne in the guise of a […]

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Don’t Walk Away From Jesus, but if You Do, He Still Looks at You and Loves You

Anita Mathias — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 11:08:52 +0000

Matthew 19: 16-26 Don’t Walk Away From Jesus, but if You Do, He Still Looks at You and Loves You It’s a beautiful offer: Come follow Jesus on a life of divine guidance on faith-challenging and exciting adventures. Chasing ambitions, strutting our stuff exhausts us, but the excitements of knowing the ever-fresh, […]

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How to Find the Freedom of Forgiveness

Anita Mathias — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:02:57 +0000

We can be tortured for months, years, decades by searing memories of past abuses, injuries, and injustices. Oh, to find the freedom and lightness of forgiveness. But how do we command the hurricane of our emotions to be still? How do we forgive? When tormenting memories surface, our cortisol, adrenaline, blood pressure, and heart […]

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