Hidden meanings

All this talk about food...

Feed 5000 with 5 loaves, 4000 with 7 loaves...

And still we are hungry. Stomachs grumbling, we forgot our food.

"Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Oh yeah, yeast goes in food, right? What's wrong with their yeast? I don't get it...

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And so it goes. Our lives crowd in on us, creating the constraints of our thoughts. If all we have is our lives, and all we think about is what is happening, then all we see or hear is defined by the constraints of what we think and what we think we know.

But then something happens to remind us that this is not all there is. A deeper meaning is at hand. And the fact of the matter is, a deeper meaning is *always* at hand. That deeper meaning is forgotten about during the trivialities of every day living, but it is always there, and really it is always within our reach, if we turn our eyes away from the ordinary, and open our eyes with faith to what is in front of us.

We may be thinking about food, and we may hear a warning about yeast, and not connect the two into its deeper meaning. By learning about yeast in the spiritual context, we can backtrack and think about not only food, but everything in our lives, every test, every joy, every failure, every event in its deeper spiritual meaning.

And when we know there is that deeper spiritual meaning, we loosen our hold on our interpretation of these events, we loosen our hold on the illusory feeling of control we have over these events, and we keep, with that loosened hold, our eyes open for the meaning the events will impart to us.

Bad things are happening to me, even now. They occupy my thoughts, and they constrain my focus and my perspective, making me forget that this is not all there is. There *is* more, and how I put these events into a higher spiritual context reveals who I am and who is my God. So, I have to trust, have faith, and let go, and know, beyond all doubt, that He is in charge. "The yeast of the pharisees" is the example of not letting my focus become to narrow, and in fact, the yeast of the Pharisees is an example of narrow, unGodly, focus.