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Baking Bread: a spiritual act

June 15, 2020

Revd Anne Priestley  Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.” (Matthew 13:33)  Bread became one of the themes of life in lockdown. Even before Level 4 arrived, loaves were disappearing fast from supermarket shelves - flour and yeast likewise. But I’d managed to lay in basic supplies, because for medical reasons our little family went into lockdown early. I planned to bake most of our bread - and can report success! Beautiful loaves, golden brown, hot from the oven, scenting the kitchen. They’d be eaten up within a couple of days, and then the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Pakeha, Reflections Tagged With: Bakerwoman God, bread making, care of creation, Covid-19, dough, justice, kingdom of heaven, lock down bread, spirituality of baking bread

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