Good morning…
“Our spiritual life is not one slice in a loaf of bread with others slices representing family, work, church, neighborhood, and so on,” says author and spiritual director Jan Johnson. “Our life with God is the leaven permeating the entire loaf. And when we ignore God’s presence in all of life, our soul weakens and we shrink from being all we were created to be.” (When the Soul Listens, p. 151)
The above is one of my favorite quotes from a book I will teach next fall in my living room. In When the Soul Listens, Jan gently schools us in how to differentiate God’s voice from the voice of our ego, from the worldly voices shouting orders, and from the committee members in our head pushing their agendas. When we train our souls to listen for the loving voice of our great, good, guiding God, we will sense the LORD’s presence permeating our entire loaf of daily bread.
Jesus also used this illustration: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough,” Matthew 13:33 (AMP),
Sue
