Bread, in its simplest form, consists of just three ingredients: flour, water, and salt. Yes, yeast is important, but it can also be created with just two ingredients: flour and water. That simple mixture will ferment and create the wonderful, aromatic leavening known as sourdough starter. Once you learn the ropes, you can create a myriad variety of bread to sustain you and your family. You begin to have faith in your yeast to do what it says it will do.

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Just as yeast transforms flour and water into a risen loaf, faith has the power to elevate our lives, even in uncertain times. We slog through life sometimes…dragging our proverbial flour and water around with us, looking for the right yeast to build us up. We may not know where we can go to get the perfect yeast to make us rise. Or maybe we just turn to the farmer to give us all the yeast and flour we could ever need to fill our bellies.

Even bread can be dull and flavorless unless we use something to season the dough…salt. By adding that ingredient alone, our taste buds dance the tango. But what if I told you there was an additional magic ingredient that would fulfill all your body’s needs beyond anything you could create in your kitchen? They are free for the asking and open countless doors. The Bible says so.

Those magic ingredients are Faith…and salt. With God through Jesus to provide for all our needs, we lack nothing. We’ll never, ever be alone again. And our Daily Bread will come from the Source, flavored with salt and love. That will keep us steady and fed, even in the worst of circumstances.

Keep well fed, dear ones.

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All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the Lord I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and for your offspring with you.” Numbers 18:19 ESV

***Gratitude Journal*** Today, I am grateful for the loving and forever companion I have in Jesus. I didn’t give my life to him till I was forty-seven years old. My one regret in life is that I didn’t do it forty years sooner.