Second Tuesday in Lent

"Therefore, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."  1 Corinthians 5:8

too often, we prefer

the sourdough starter

which comes down to us

from those whose anger

has never been calmed,

whose fears are like yeast

which expands our panic,

whose heated hatred 

is more curdled than milk

left out in the heat of August.

so feed us on that bread

whose brokenness can 

make us whole and new.

(c) 2024 Thom M. Shuman

Venmo: @Thom-Shuman