Bread*

Think of ourself as homemade bread.  Someone took certain ingredients and then lovingly did something with them to make the end product: bread.  Bread is then fed to others who are hungry.  So, your talents, gifts, are the ingredients that can be used to make a certain kind of person.  But they must be combined, and worked on with love so that they can eventually become a person who can be of service to others who are empty.  You cannot be any kind of bread.  No one has all the talents and gifts of the human condition.  You have some, and that is enough to become the nourishing you for others.  Who kneads you to make you bread?  Ah!  That is a Power, a Force, God, the Really Real, the One, or whatever you might name it.  Is is not you, but it is what will make you rise up and be your best self, a loving, non-judgmental person for instance.  The daily spiritual connection is to allow this Power to work on you.  God the Baker!  I like that.  I still don't like whole wheat bread though.  I "knead" to be more open.