Sugar-Eating Fungus

Many Liberty students, especially upon heading into a three-day weekend of chocolate and marshmallows, may be giving thought to Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, the scientific name for yeast which literally means “sugar-eating fungus.”

 

It’s essential in baking bread, making beverages, and anything else where converting sugar and starch into carbon dioxide and alcohol is desired; and, it doesn’t take much yeast. Even a little bit causes all the dough to rise.  

 

Being a living organism, yeast animates a timeworn cultural bromide suggesting people should clear out the old yeast so they may become a fresh batch of dough. As it relates to this weekend’s ancient holidays, the old aphorism applies, “Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”  

 

Therein lies a compelling basis upon which to see what is above. May the Passover be blessed for all in our community who commemorate it (5-13 April), and the extra day off for Good Friday be one of timeless renewal; and, may the three-day Easter weekend inspire us all to firmness in sincerity and truth.