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As you pass the Church on your left, you will see a single Elder tree, festooned in Spring with lacy white flowers and in Autumn with tiny red berries. The flowers and berries are food for birds and insects and can be made into cordials for humans. The frothy white blooms of the elder that appear in the spring contain a natural wild yeast. It can be used to make beverages with a real fizz!

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What is the Holy Spirit like? Theologians over the centuries have come up with many analogies. How about wild yeast? Something that invisibly transforms, excites and is beyond our control? Adds fizz, in fact. God’s kingdom is like yeast that a woman works into the dough for dozens of loaves of barley bread—and waits while the dough rises. (Matthew 13:33)

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