I cup my hands over the warm dough, brush flour from the top onto the cornmeal covered pizza peel. I made this dough with my own hands. When water and yeast meet flour and salt and time, they rise up together, mingling in the bowl so we can’t tell one from the other. They make a new thing.
When it’s time to put it in the oven, the heavy dough sits rounded on the stone. As it begins to move, I watch in wonder. Because I may have added these things together, but I can’t make them breathe. And the idea that I made this dough with my own hands turns laughable now. Really? Where do you keep your storehouses of water? Did you mine the rocks or capture the sea water to get that salt? I am Job and the bread questions turn to earth questions and I’m wondering how the proud waves know where to stop and who gives the sun his orders and where night ends and morning begins.
I mix the dough, not because I know things, but because I have faith in those who have done it already. I am a student of bread and of life. Busy makes me too big. Slow brings me down low. I need to stay low, small, thankful.
One of my favorite thankful practices we started here over two years ago. Tuesdays Unwrapped began as a project to see life on purpose, to look at what is and embrace it rather than wish it different. Tuesdays gave us permission to take the time to unwrap the small, secret gift of the everyday. It was a year ago that I stopped doing Tuesdays Unwrapped as a weekly link up. It was one of those things I had to say no to in order to say yes to other things. But I have missed it, the weekly practice of noticing with a community.
Beginning tomorrow, I would like to unwrap my tuesdays again with you from now until the end of the year. While dear Ann invites us to list one thousand gifts on Mondays, I invite you to unwrap them one by one on Tuesdays. For tomorrow, I hope you’ll choose one gift of your ordinary day and find the miracle secret it holds. Write it out, breathe it in, capture its image, see it new. And then come here to tell us all about it by linking up. If you are new to this community, here is all the information you’ll need to prepare your post. I hope to see you tomorrow.
Yay! So great to “hear” your voice here again! Missed you!! I am looking forward to linking up. I have only been blogging about a year and a half, so I didn’t stumble across your blog until your sabbatical time with Tuesdays Unwrapped so I look forward to getting to the know the community that will meet up here….it’s gonna be fun…I just know it!!
I believe I may just link up to this. I began following your blog quite a while ago, but never linked up to Tuesdays Unwrapped. I link up with Ann on Mondays and this would be a way to go even deeper in looking harder at the ordinary and mundane.
So glad to have you back. I’ve missed your “voice”. Looking forward to Tuesdays Unwrapped. Hoping I can find some time out of my busy schedule to link up.
Hi Emily, I discovered your blog a few weeks ago and I really enjoy it. I am planning on hosting a Grace for the Good Girl biblestudy in my home starting mid January. I look forward to the Tuesdays Unwrapped! What a great way to slow down our crazy, busy lives and recall the blessings in each day! We all have them, we just need to recognize them and sometimes reading what others have to say or what’s going on in the life of someone else will help jog our minds to what’s going on in our’s! Looking forward to this and to your new book!!
Thanks, Tricia! Let me know if you have any questions as you prepare to host your study.
i’ve been so excited for this coming this week, friend. can’t wait to celebrate with you this week.
Magical.
See you tomorrow.
oh I’m so glad! I’ve missed this.
I’m ready. So glad you’re returning to this.
Oh yay! I am so excited! I always love your Tuesdays Unwrapped! Your writing has encouraged me so much. I am focusing on unwrapping His Grace these days. I have an article from last week that would fit in “Tuesdays Unwrapped”. Is it OK for it to be from last week?
What a lovely gift for my December.
thank you friend.
Yippee! super-duper ready. Missed this too.
I’ve missed it too. I’m looking forward to getting acquainted with Miss Tuesday again. : ) As for your bread, “Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes?” I love it. Started making it this fall and it’s like a happy miracle each time I pull a loaf from the oven.
I’ve only been reading your blog for a very short time, but have been so blessed! I’m excited about joining in on your Tuesdays Unwrapped! I have enjoyed linking up with Ann on my thankful journey and will look forward to linking up with you as I strive “to look at what is and embrace it rather than wish it different.” Thank you, Emily!
Glad you’re back, refreshed, renewed…and small, so that He is Big!
Yaaaay! I’m so excited
Staying low, small, and thankful brings me the peace I long for. When it’s missing I always know it’s been pushed away by the big and the busy.
Hi, a friend lead me to your post. My husband is passionate about artisan breadmaking, which means I get to make some loaves! We use the breadmaking process as a metaphor for transformation. Incredible to think that four pretty ordinary ingredients co-create a gorgeous and nutritious loaf of bread.
Waiting the hardest part!
Look forward to being part of unwrapping Tuesdays.
Hi, a friend lead me to your post. My husband is passionate about artisan breadmaking, which means I get to make some loaves! We use the breadmaking process as a metaphor for transformation. Incredible to think that four pretty ordinary ingredients co-create a gorgeous and nutritious loaf of bread.
Waiting the hardest part!
Look forward to being part of unwrapping Tuesdays.
Thanks
Glad you’re back on the blog…glad Tuesdays is coming back for a bit, too.
I’m looking forward to unwrapping my tomorrow. Can’t wait. Great gifts await.
I was so glad to see this again – thank you for the yes, and for your invitation. It has been a while since I have been here. I have missed you.