Jeweled Breadcrumbs #1 : a heathen’s unlikely journey or God that refuses to give up
morsels of wonder wisdom awe
stowed in empty doorways
cached in shady corners
blindsiding bites and baubles
reign from rainbowed banners
God’s jeweled breadcrumbs
teasing taunting tantalizing
tripping terrifying salutations
taste touch see
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This year I will tell the story of how God nudges, cajoles, drop kicks and masters me to be the real human being that I am … becoming … following God’s Jeweled Breadcrumbs. My daily writing challenge for 2025 is to share the Breadcrumbs with you.
If i was wise i would put down my pen, seal my lips and cease my ill fated attempt to speak of that which cannot be spoken. For years i have done just that, protesting, “Who am i to speak of such things? Why would anyone listen to me?” But something has happened to me. As Walter Bruggemann puts it, “An ordinary human receives an extraordinary assignment, which upholds itself, how exactly, nobody knows, least of all that human.” For better or worse i have received such an assignment.
Debra, share My Jeweled Breadcrumbs.
Staring into my life’s rear view mirror i spy a series of ordinary events in which the extraordinary presence of Something More breaks through, turns my sense of the world upside down and inside out, then slips away. Each of these moments stamps a doorway on my heart. Although i habitually object before stepping across each threshold, the presence of Something More refuses to let me go. Something More weaves a thread of discontent through the pages of my life, demanding i consent to an extraordinary assignment that makes me quake, nudges me along and when i refuse to pay attention, delivers a swift drop kick.
Shaking my head i complain. Every time i think i have discovered something or someone in the social fabric of my life that satisfies my desire for security, safety, affection, esteem, power or control, in other words, every time i think, “Ah, I am finally settled in a comfortable rut,” discontent pokes holes in my grey flannel suit. Thanks to the keen-edged elbow of Something More needling me, i have burned through three careers, two marriages and a long time lover all to discover, that which i desire is already here.
Like salt added to soup enhances the flavor, my life has been seasoned with a series of revelatory experiences that i call Jeweled Breadcrumbs. Although i cannot tell you why, from the time i was ten years old my faith in the truth and trustworthiness of these experiences is unflappable. Frankly, even though trained as a scientist, i trust them more than anything or anyone outside of me.
The assignment that brings me to the writing of these words is to unapologetically speak the truth of what i know that i know that i know while admitting i know nothing. All of the words i will share each day are generated by grace and God galvanized grit informed by the wide-eyed experiences of this ordinary human being. The work of my lifetime is to get out of the way, to receive and put into words what is always already here.
INVITATION — will you join me tracing the trail of Jeweled Breadcrumbs this year?
Debra Asis
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