A Leavened Life
Again he asked, “To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? It is like a small measure of leaven that a woman took and mixed into sixty pounds of dough, which was left until the whole quantity of dough was affected.”
The Gospel of Luke
Leaven is a form of natural yeast. I myself am a baker and know the wonder of adding a small amount of dried yeast or naturally fermented fungus to an amount of flour, water, and salt. This mixture rises and when cooked it becomes bread.
The Kingdom of Heaven begins as a small amount. It spreads from simple truths which take hold of us and come to direct the course of our lives. The work of the Kingdom produces the bread, which is life itself.
Here I share my thoughts and experiences as a follower of Jesus and as a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven. I am learning every day that the Kingdom is not a place way we go to or a world we create, but a way of truly seeing and knowing the world in which we already live.
It is this seeing which acts like leaven and causes the rest to rise. It is seeing that fills life, as yeast fills the dough and makes bread.
The Kingdom of God is at hand. It is already here and has always been here, if only we learn to see it. To seek is to realise that the Kingdom is already found.
