Today it was satisfying to bake bread with my daughter. I made onion bread and she made pretzels. It took us a few hours and we read the last few verses in Matthew chapter six in between letting the bread rise and the yeast ferment. As we mixed our flour, kneaded and shaped the dough we listened to Robert D. Hales of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Ben Shapiro from the Harvard Law School. (They don't speak together, it was just the two speakers we chose today.) She rolled out the pretzel shapes and I shaped the round loaves of onion bread, sprinkling sesame seeds on top. Baking bread together had been on my list for some time, but never urgent and reaching priority until today. It was a perfect way to practice bread making skills, share the bread with others, and participate together in a nurturing creative activity that fed our souls and other souls as well. While it was snowy outside, we felt warm and sunny inside. It was one of those mornings you want to remember for a long time. There were things that didn't get done today, but I had the wonderful satisfaction of aligning an activity with a top priority. I'm finding when time and resources are aligned with top priorities, the other stuff fades away or heaven takes care of the details. I saw this happen this week as a weighty responsibility that may have taken several hours was taken off my plate as a friend volunteered her talent. I also had a valuable time saving idea came to me early in the morning.
It means I have to let go. Be vigilant with top priorities. And place my time and resources toward those priorities. And that top priority is family. The scripture we read in Matthew six? "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." My heart was full today.
