God will never bully us to do something worthy and beautiful with our lives. The choice is always ours. But God will also never stop giving us opportunities to say, “Yes.” Christmas happened and continues to happen when we agree to birth any amount of
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The latest culinary craze goes by many names: Ancient Grain Bowl, Buddha Bowl, California Bowl, Rainbow Bowl, Sunshine Bowl. For me, the bowl provides a blank canvas to be creative with flavors, healthy ingredients and lots of color! When I am creating a bowl for
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Each of us has been deeded with our own metaphorical farm, a plot of time and space to grow something beautiful and benevolent with our lives. We also must make sure we have deep enough roots to sustain us through the inevitable setbacks. Following the
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I conceived the idea of Soulful 7 Conversations selfishly because I wanted to hear how other people make sense of the human spiritual experience here on earth hoping it might inform and expand my own. Always I am on the search for new ways
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Some days I wake up feeling especially human. My imperfections seem to outshine my glories. No one would believe I have any relation to God by my thoughts, actions, and dismal soul-showing. My friend Tallu recently wrote an encouraging prayer asking God to help mend
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I am always on the hunt for a stellar read where I lose myself in the story!
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This week was my son Charlie's seventeenth birthday and he requested rosemary encrusted lamb chops for his special dinner! I am not a fan of the traditional accompaniment of mint jelly so I serve my lamb with a mint pesto! It is the piece de
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Many vignettes of our human lives we feel small and pinned to the earth and our circumstances, but deep within us----there is this longing for the sacred, the transcendent and the eternal. God is always luring us to the spiritual well! It doesn’t matter if
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Care of one’s body (the sacred temple) and care of the whole health
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We have a menagerie of animals at our house, almost a Noah’s Arkful! Our most recent addition is a brother/sister pair of huskies. I confess a moment of Christmas parental weakness. Who wouldn’t want a couple of cute puppies around the tree? What were we
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