Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Parable of the cake

I expect I could write lots of parables about cake. Here’s one to start with.

A girl wanted to make a birthday cake for her Dad. Her Mum wanted to support her, but wasn’t feeling very generous towards the Dad as there was lots of financial anxiety abounding. She showed her daughter a recipe that the mum knew would make a cake but not a very large one. The girl made the cake only she was a bit distracted and used the wrong flour and it came out like a biscuit. She asked to make another and so the mum went out to get new ingredients and a second cake was made using the same recipe but again turned out like a biscuit. A third time the mum went out to buy ingredients and on her return showed her daughter a better recipe requiring double the ingredients. The cake it produced exceeded all expectations and everyone was happy. The girl had it reaffirmed that her mum would do her best to help her realise her dreams. And the mum had learned that generosity always pays, that fear and meanness cost more in the long run.

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