Rise (Apr. 4)

Have you ever taken the time to make bread and not in a bread machine but to actually make bread with your own hands? There is a period of time in which the bread must sit and rest, to a certain extent, during which time the bread rises. As the bread rises it becomes ever so much closer to the task of which it is meant to accomplish, that of becoming a loaf of bread. Similarly, it life man is set out to rise up to the task before them. An army must rise up together to defeat the enemy. A sports team must rise up together in order to win a game. Even in work you must rise up to the challenge of completing the assigned task. So what is the importance of this act of rising? It seems, in essence, that humans have this innate and built in desire to become something greater than they currently are and to completely accomplish this something must happen whereby they literally rise above where they currently are. The task is not complete until this act of rising has been accomplished.