I have jumped in on the quarantine craze of bread making. I don’t do anything fancy, so I just ordered a sourdough starter from Amazon.
We watched videos online about how to make it and we gave it a try. I figured if nothing happened, this $8 bought us a few days of entertainment…as we currently evaluate activities by how long we can stretch them out. (Yes, this could take three days…perfect.)
You feed the sourdough starter with water and flour, and then you wait and watch to see if it bubbles and looks “lively.” Feed and wait, feed and wait. My favorite thing about making bread has been the pace. We invest and then give it time to develop.
It’s so true of many things in our lives. We pour into friendship, and then we wait. We invest in our marriage, and then we wait. We read our Bibles and pray and it might not seem to be earth shattering at the time, but those little deposits are what make things come alive.
When so much is uncertain and seems far away, I’ve been trying to consider, “What does faithfulness look like today?” Just like the sourdough starter, it’s doing the next right thing, and then waiting for the deposit to come alive.
Maybe we will see it and maybe we won’t, but I always want to be making the small investments, little by little. Over time, if we are faithful to the small things, with our eyes on our big God, yielding to His recipe, our lives will bake into something beautiful.
P.S. This is the recipe I have been following using all purpose flour, because I haven’t had bread flour. #quarantinelife #limitedshopping #itsouteverywhere
HLLF,
