Tagged: integration

The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children forever. Deuteronomy 29:29 I sit with a lump of bread dough today and listen for a while. There is hidden work happening here. As I knead and pull the dough, I can see it is not elastic enough. Its fibers, viscous and bonded though they are, tear apart. The inner structure of the dough is not yet integrated. How like my heart, not yet flexible enough, not quite integrated, as You patiently shape me in Your hands. I persist, folding the dough again and again. It seems to weaken. Surrender. Now it is no longer resistant to the work of my hands. It begins to break… Read More