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Christian Meditation with Anita Mathias

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Brief poetic meditations on the great Christian and Biblical themes by writer and blogger, Anita Mathias. I am currently meditating through the Gospel of Matthew, a meditation a week.

Scripts on Anitamathias.com


Please check out my memoir, Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk (and widely available internationally).

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    • Using God's Gift of our Talents: A Pathway to Joy and Abundance
      Nov 4 2025

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      Jesus, in his Parable of the Talents, vividly 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 niches in his

      ecosystem, prominent vocations, or quieter ones. But

      God is kind to all, lavishing on us life itself, nature, sunshine,

      sleep, the joy of movement, and human kindness. As well

      as individual gifts! We each have 600 to 700 talents–

      Rick Warren cites research! –most of which we never use.

      Our vocations are a test, and our happiness and biography

      pivot on how we use our gifts. Those who rarely squander

      time but invest in their talents lead ever-bigger lives. Their

      gifting and influence expands exponentially. They spot and

      mine hidden opportunities, and experience success,

      financially, too; an always-interesting life, and the exhilaration

      of achieving their goals with good work which blesses many.

      Some, though, do not nurture their talents, feeling resentful

      and defeated as they side-eye those with five times their assets

      of family, education, charisma, connections, capital, time,

      intelligence, good looks or good sense. Fearing their work may

      come to nothing, they attempt little, leading grudging, lazy

      lives. Their talents, unused, wither, creating a vacuum for the

      hard-working to shine. This slothfulness leads to loneliness,

      sadness, and judgement, while the gifts of the diligent multiply.

      To savour the excitement of living, we need eyes bright

      with bounce-out-of-bed purpose—and the gift of purpose

      has been given to us: to focus our lives on excellent work

      with our gifts, great or small. This delivers us from

      wasting our precious lives on triviality. It rescues us from

      a black hole of addictions to success, money, fame,

      or phones. It is the pathway to happiness and abundance.

      And, on any day, during any decade of our lives, we can

      start revising them, and rewrite a beautiful new story.

      And though we may be well, well behind those who have

      steadfastly used their abilities, if we now assess what we

      can do with our current strength and energy, which changes

      as we do, and then nourish our neglected gifts, starting

      with those which most make our hearts sing, those talents

      will blossom, filling the rest of our lives with aliveness,

      new interests, and new opportunities to be a blessing to

      the world which God so loves. And, in God’s kindness,

      our five loaves may yet feed five thou

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      22 min
    • The Kingdom of God is Here Already, Yet Not Yet Here
      Feb 8 2025

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      The Kingdom of God (which is, partly, a mysterious, shimmering internal palace in which we experience righteousness, peace and joy) is, in lightning flashes, here already—we can leap into it—though not yet fully here. We sense the rainbowed presence of Christ in the joy which pulses through creation. Christ strolls into our rooms with his wisdom and guidance & things change. Prayers are answered, we are healed, our hearts are strangely warmed. Sometimes.

      And yet, we also experience sin, deep within & all around us. Our own sin, which steals our peace and distorts the trajectory of our lives. And the sin of the world--its greed, dishonesty and environmental destruction.

      But in this broken world, in which we have a spiritual adversary, we still experience the glory of creation; “coincidences” which accelerate once we start praying, and shalom which envelops us like sudden sunshine. Portals into this Kingdom include repentance, gratitude, meditative breathing, and absolute surrender.


      Christ's Kingdom is “here already, yet not yet here.” Christ,

      who rose from the dead, is now forever, vibrantly alive; he

      stalks the earth. We sense him in the joy of all creation.

      In lightning flashes , we glimpse his shimmering Kingdom

      --great palaces of peace deep within us. On invitation, Christ

      walks into our rooms with his clarity and wisdom, and things

      change. We sometimes experience wave upon wave of the

      love of God deep within and all around us. Our prayers are

      answered. Sometimes. We are healed. Sometimes. We feel our hearts

      strangely warmed with loving-kindness and warm-fuzzies. Sometimes.

      But we also experience sin, deep within and all around us.

      We are bruised by other people’s greed, stinginess, bossiness,

      And then…there’s the sin of the world—the cruelty, pride,

      unbridled greed and environmental destruction!

      And yet, the Kingdom, God’s presence, is always available

      --its peace, its guidance, its wisdom and its joy. We can

      leap sideways into it, sometimes. Or it may take a hard

      wrestling with our own traumas, grudges, habits, and neurology.

      Repentance is one portal into the Kingdom. As is our slow

      meditative breathing. As is gratitude. And absolute surrender.

      Our eyes still perceive the glory of the coming of the Lord--

      in surprising joy and shalom, well-being, which envelops us like

      sudden sunshine; in glacially slow but unmistakeable personal

      change; in the acceleration of coincidences and answers once we

      start praying; in the glory of creation. And so, we,

      with quivering voices, sing our broken hallelujahs as we observe

      Christ’s kingdom inexorably, infinitesimally appear on earth, too.

      My memoir: Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India UK USA

      Blog: anitamathias.com

      Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anitamathiaswriter/
      Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anita.mathias/
      Twitter : anitamathias1
      My book of essays: Wandering Between Two Worlds (US) and UK

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      14 min
    • "All Those Who Exalt Themselves Will Be Humbled & the Humble Will Be Exalted.” (Matthew 23)
      Nov 4 2024

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      "Those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who

      humble themselves will be exalted." And so, Jesus states a law

      of life. Those who broadcast their amazingness will be humbled,

      since God dislikes--scorns that, as much as people do. For to

      trumpet our success, wealth, brilliance, giftedness or popularity

      is to get distracted from the purpose for which we were created

      into pointless, worthless activity. Those who love power, who are

      sure they know best, and who must be the best, will eventually be

      humbled by God and life. For their focus has shifted from loving

      God, doing good work, and being a blessing to their family, friends,

      and the world towards impressing others, being enviable, perhaps

      famous. These things are houses built on sand, which will crumble

      when hammered by the waves of old age, infirmity or adversity.

      God resists the proud, Scripture tells us--those who strive

      for the admiration, attention and power which is His alone

      but He helps the humble. So how do we resist pride? We

      slow down, so that we notice and repent when sheer pride

      sparks our allergies to people, our enmities, our determination

      to have our own way, or our grandiose pride-driven goals, dreams and ambitions.

      Once we stop chasing limelight or showing off, a great quietness

      steals over our lives. We no longer need the drug of continual

      achievement, or to share memories or images of glittering travel,

      parties, prizes or friends. We just enjoy them quietly. My life

      is for itself, and not for a spectacle, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote.

      And, as Jesus advises, we don’t sharp-elbow ourselves to

      the most prominent place with the shiniest people, but are

      content to hang out with ordinary people, where we may

      learn new things, and develop our character, kindness and

      empathy, if not our network. And then, as Jesus said, we will

      inevitably, eventually, be summoned higher to where, perhaps,

      the conversation is more heady and sparkling, or perhaps

      upwards to sit with those of a gentle, humble and radiant heart.

      So how do we cultivate humility? J I Packer suggests: “Consider

      everything you know about yourself. If other people knew it,

      would they esteem you? They would all think, ‘What a rascal!’

      So, why are you esteeming yourself better than anyone else?”

      One day, every knee will bow before the gentle lamb

      who was slain, now seated on the throne. We will all be silent

      before him. Let us live gently then, our eyes on Christ,

      continually asking for his power, his Spirit, and his direction,

      moving, dancing, in the direction that we sense him move.

      My memoir: Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India UK USA

      Blog: anitamathias.com

      Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anitamathiaswriter/
      Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anita.mathias/
      Twitter : anitamathias1
      My book of essays: Wandering Between Two Worlds (US) and UK

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      18 min
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