I can remember not too many years ago when we used an old hand operated flour sifter. It was a simple little contraption that consisted of a little tin can with a screen in the bottom and a crank that turned a wire against that screen. Flour wasn’t as fine in those days as it is now and it always needed sifting to get rid of the lumps.

The fine particles that made it through were used in the baking process but there was always some rock-hard pieces left over that were useless and were cast away.

Our lives are placed through a sifter. With each new day, the crank is

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