Over the last couple of weeks, jogging in Percy Warner Park, I have happily enjoyed the gradual greening of the landscape, a witness to the visible resurrection of tree, clover and wildflower. Could there be anything more rewarding and reassuring than the arrival of spring?
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Henri Nouwen says, "Home is the place you can hear God's voice calling you the beloved." To live soulfully is to be aware of and confess our shortcomings. Too easily our pride can eclipse our truth-telling soul, separating us from the better part of ourselves.
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What if I told you that you have in your possession a treasure of remarkable value hanging in plain sight, waiting to be discovered? Your soul knows this to be true. For however many years you have been alive, a metaphorical “Da Vinci” has been
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Today's guest on Soulful 7 Conversations is my friend, mentor and all-around beautiful human being, Anne Alexander Stauffer. Her resume is extraordinary: anthropologist, ordained minister, licensed therapist for over forty years, healer, author, ballroom dancer and that is just scratching the surface. Anne is well-known for
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Steak Frites is a French bistro classic, and a special treat at the Mason household. It has only been in the last several years that we have slowly included grass-fed, grass-finished meat back into our diets. After Charlie’s cancer and reading The China Study, fruits
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This season of Lent, wherever it finds you, is an invitation to stop and check your coordinates: Are you on the right path? How closely does your exterior life mirror the priorities and longings of your heart? Who directs your steps: ego or soul? How
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This week is the beginning of Lent. I invite you to lay on Love’s alter whatever is cluttering your heart and robbing you of soul joy. Try listening to your soul more than the world’s clanging cymbals. Spend these coming wilderness days, tidying your inner
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Sometimes prayer is simply my soul reminding my material self who she is, why she is here, and her deepest hopes and intentions for this earthly adventure. A return to the truth to live the truth.
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Apples are a miracle food and your grandmother’s old saying, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” is sage advice! They are loaded with phytonutrients, antioxidants, and fiber to promote optimal health. Studies have found that apples reduce inflammation in our bodies and cortisol
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Whatever happens in my life, whatever I lose or gain, however deep and wide, precious and painful the human experience, however many number of breaths I have accrued or remain for me in The Book of Life, I am both verb and noun, be-loved and
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