Ed’s thoughts:

Your Spirit, oh Lord, dwells in me like leaven and leavens my “whole” life. It is like a supernatural “chemical” reaction within my soul giving me a new heart and a desire to follow Jesus as my shepherd, to obey the word of God, to sit at my lord’s feet and hear Him, to find peace and healing in His touch, to walk now in His council and be ready to go home when He calls me.

His word grows in me like mustard seed. It starts off small but as God, my father, calls me and prepares my heart to be “good ground” the word of God sends out roots into all aspects of my life and grows up and out and spreads over my places and thoughts in life and, by God’s grace I become a channel of blessing to those around me and I dwell with my Lord, hidden with Him, in love, joy and peace. A clay jar filled with a treasure.