a friend who has a bread-making hobby (skill!! gift!?) recently shared tips she learned while living w/ a retired couple in the country last year. quote of the day while baking: "it makes me feel like a pilgrim." below is her rough how-to for making white bread, rough only b/c she's become so familiar w/ it that she eyeballs most of it. the process takes a few hours due to the kneading, letting it rise, kneading again, etc.*
Jeannie's Home-made Bread
- a mug of lukewarm water w/ 2 yeast packets
- 1/3 c. oil
- another mug filled w/ lukewarm water
- 1/4 c. sugar
keep adding flour to the above till it's dough. knead dough, place back in bowl to rise (pour a little oil in bowl to keep bread from drying out as it rises); after an hour or so, knead again & let it rise. after another hr., knead & fold dough into 2 loaves. cooking spray in 2 bread pans, bake at 375 for 15 (ish) minutes
also- recent encouragement from psalm 25:14 & john 15:15- "He confides in those who fear Him..." (The Message says "God-friendship is for God-worshippers"), & "i have called you friends"...
help! the vast chasm that is the human heart will only rest & be contented in this kind of companionship. so i'm encouraged to draw from Him & know Him myself as deeply as possible this side of eternity, & to direct others there. thankful for reminders from godly women in my life to ASK Him for this & to keep in mind that it's a PROCESS. and growing in this Love, we increasingly want to dispense it & say "come & see"/"BEHOLD! what love He's lavished." oswald explains it well:
"The knowledge that God has loved me to the uttermost, to the end of all my sin and meanness and selfishness and wrong, will send me forth into the world to love in the same way. God's love to me is inexhaustible, and I must love others from the bedrock of God's love to me."
- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, May 11th
*a secret re: the bread- you can't knead too much b/c the bread becomes increasingly fluffy the more kneading you do. think PROCESS.
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