“God will strip away anything that you are secure in that is not of Him.” Graham Cooke “Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.” Song of Solomon 8:6

This will not be a life-is-a-beach kind of post . But if you’re in the process of becoming wine or bread you will find rest in the hope of this miraculous process. Picture the process: Individual kernels of wheat separated by protective coats of chaff swinging in the late summer sun, rattling small sounds of ripeness. Off in the distance the sound of harvesters seems nonthreatening at first but it grows louder and louder and then all at once the sharp blade cuts each head of grain from its life source. After a series of jostlings near violent, a small kernel of grain emerges only to lose all identity under…