June 1

UNITY is becoming part of the mix

The Kingdom of heaven is like this.   A woman takes some yeast and mixes it with a bushel of flour until the whole batch of dough rises.  ~ Matthew 13:33

A teacher told her class, “When I was a girl, my grandma gave me a big cucumber inside a bottle with a narrow neck.  She said she’d tell me a ‘big secret’ when I figured out how she got it into the bottle.  One day I was walking in Grandma’s garden, and I saw a bottle into which she had inserted a vine with a tiny cucumber on it.  Now I knew how she got the cucumber in the bottle; she grew it there.
Then Grandma told me her ‘big secret.’ She said a ‘good habit’ formed in childhood is like a tiny cucumber inserted in a bottle – or like a tiny bit of yeast inserted in dough.  The habit grows so big and strong inside you that no one can take it away from you.”  ~ Mark Link, S.J.

What is one good habit, formed in childhood, which has grown bigger in you?  What are some good habits and/or bad habits our council is forming?

First we form habits, then they form us.  Conquer your bad habits, or they’ll eventually conquer you.  ~ Dr. Rob Gilbert