Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.
Yeast. It’s a single-celled fungus. Alone, it doesn’t do much, good or bad. But we wouldn’t have wine or beer without it. When it comes to bread, 
yeast serves as a leaven, making the difference between flatbreads and light, airy loaves. We don’t need yeast the way we do oxygen or water, but it sure makes life richer and fuller.
In the same way, God doesn’t need us to do His thing. He touches hearts and souls and works miracles in the lives of others all the time without our little bit of help. And indeed, when our lives are a mess, we ourselves may not feel able to fully embrace God, and when our lives are tooling along just fine, we may not see a need for Him. And millions of people believe they get through earthly life just fine without Him.
But when we allow even a bit of Him into our lives, they become immeasurably richer and fuller. And when we allow even a bit of ourselves to be used to evangelize to others, the result can be something greater than we could ever accomplish on our own. We can be His yeast.
Yeast. Maybe there’s a reason the word yes can be found within it.
