who doesn’t love delicious French toast?! eggy & sweet, spongy & tasty to eat. this breakfast delicacy delivers cinnamon-y & syrup-y goodness!
from flour milled to bread baked, French toast requires time, care, & work, to eventually produce this delightful morning time sweet—a process!
like cooking French toast, our lives are process. we don’t wake up to insta-sweetness. we wade through grief. we battle sickness or even the fight to believe. but when we submit to Jesus, trusting His process, we will find goodness in the end. it won’t always be sweet in the moment, but we can look ahead to the glorious, good ending, & be encouraged.
French toast starts with bread.
bread starts with flour.
flour starts with grains, seeds or roots.
making flour is a process.
wheat flour comes from wheat berry undergoing cleaning, soaking, separating, milling, sifting, maturing & packaging.
like the flour creating process, the book of Ruth in the Bible contains some great wisdom concerning waiting, trusting, & being in God’s will & timing. when Naomi returned to her homeland, with no husband & no sons, she was so devestated that she changed her name to Mara, meaning bitter. what if the story stopped there? her debilitating grief would have been a tragic ending. maybe in the moment, that was all she saw. but it was not the end. it was the middle.
you are in the middle. it could feel like the end. it could feel like life will never get better. but when we surrender & put our trust in Jesus, the best is yet to come.
what if we stopped when french toast was flour dust? would that taste very good? yuck, how bitter! wait, keep going. it gets sweeter.
once flour is made, it needs a person to purchase it.
then, the next step is baking bread.
baking bread involves gathering ingredients, adding proper amounts of flour & its friends, kneading, rising, waiting, shaping, rising again, preheating, baking, cooling. another process.
remember Naomi? her life seemed hopeless, but wait. watch. she may have felt it was over but it was not done yet. her Daughter in Law began to glean. her Daughter in Law went to the threshing floor of Boaz, Kinsman Redeemer. there was yet story to tell.
if there’s breath in your lungs, God’s not done. it’s not done yet.
once bread is baked, we need to make French toast!
step one: wait for the bread to become stale. wait. i’ll say that again—part of the process is waiting!
Naomi, after quite the rollercoaster, eventually became the grandmother of Obed—one of the descendants of Christ! her waiting was worth it.
beat a bowl of eggs till the yolks are broken & blended, & be broken yourself, open & humble. add cinnamon. milk. vanilla. then soak the stale bread. soak, rest, be. fry the bread, both sides, till it becomes rich breakfast dessert! lather in butter, drench in syrup & Walla! ENJOY the fruit of the PROCESS. (& ENJOY the process, too!!!)
so, from field to French toast, from Ruth to Boaz, from your birth to your death, it’s all PROCESS. learn to submit to Jesus & trust Him. don’t bemoan where you are or despair because you can’t see beyond. but choose to rejoice because the Process Maker is Good! then enjoy where you are when you are, rest.
the best is yet to come.
