Life 101 ~ Lessons from The Kitchen

Life 101 ~ Lessons From The Kitchen: What Cake Baking Can Teach Us About Life!

I received the following story in an e-mail from a friend. Unfortunately, the author is unknown. I wanted to share it with you because this story resonates with hope, wisdom, and the incentive for patience when we want something NOW! As this story illustrates the ingredients alone can not create the synergy that is required to create a delicious cake.

Also I would like to add to the story, that even when you have combined all the ingredients, there is a heating process that the cake must undergo for a certain period of time in order to become the delicious cake that can later be enjoyed. What happens if the cake doesn't get properly baked? It tastes simply horrible and you want to toss it out.

There is great life application here! So here's to your life and to your hope, wisdom, and patience
in allowing the synergy to happen by accepting the ingredients and the heating process needed to take humble ingredients and transform them into something as delicious as a slice of home-made cake. Agape! Kathi

Here's the story...

Sometimes we wonder, "What did I do to deserve this?" or "Why did God have to do this to me?"

Here is a wonderful explanation!

A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is going wrong, she's failing algebra, her boyfriend broke up with her and her best friend is moving away. Meanwhile, her Mother is baking a cake and asks her daughter if she would like a snack, and the daughter says, "Absolutely Mom, I love your cake"

"Here, have some cooking oil," her Mother offers.

"Yuck" says her daughter.

"How about a couple raw eggs?"

"Gross, Mom!"

"Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?"

"Mom, those are all yucky!"

To which the mother replies: "Yes, all those things seem bad all by themselves. But when they are put together in the right way, they make a wonderfully delicious cake! God works the same way. Many times we wonder why He would let us go through such bad and difficult times. But God knows that when He puts these things all in His order, they always work for good! We just have to trust Him and, eventually, they will all make something wonderful!

God is crazy about you. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart.

If you like this, send this on to the people you really care about. I did. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.