Learning from my mistakes with a cake

 

On April 9, 2017 I decided to bake a cake for my mom’s birthday, because as she says “I’m not going to make my own cake, when it’s my birthday.”  I ended up making a vanilla cake with chocolate and Reese peanut butter chips in the cake.  I hadn’t made this particular type of cake in a while, as such I ended up making a few mistakes.

Normally that would frustrate me, but thankfully they were mistakes that could be easily fixed.  When I was starting to put the ingredients together, I forgot to put the sugar in.  After adding shortening, butter, milk, and hot water, I noticed that it didn’t look right.  It looked quite watery.  That’s when I realized that I hadn’t add the sugar.  That would have been bad, as there wouldn’t have been much flavour to the cake.

After I added the sugar, I relaxed more as I didn’t think that I would make anymore mistakes since I was remembering how to make the cake again.  When it came time to add the chocolate chips, I opened a new bag and ripped it too much.  I was thinking to myself, ‘oh no the bag won’t close anymore’ then I realized I could use the old chocolate chip bag to put the new chocolate chips in.

I was thankful that the little mistakes I did during the baking process were simple enough that I could fix them and move on.  I think God takes us through little detours in life to help us learn something from them.  I often find I learn the most when I’ve made a mistake.  If you don’t realize you are doing something wrong, then you will never learn from it.

Later when it was my mom’s birthday, my husband and I secretly drove over to my mom’s place and put the cake in her fridge, when we knew she would be out.  I tried to hide it behind some yogurt she had, so that she wouldn’t see it when she got home.  That didn’t end up happening, as she told me later that she thought the bag I hid the cake in was leftover pancakes she had from before.  The sweet thing is that she knew what it was and decided not to look inside the bag as she didn’t want to spoil the surprise.

Even though my mom knows she’s getting a cake for her birthday each year, we still try to pretend we don’t know what she’s talk about.  It’s a cute thing we do in my family.  When it came time to bring out the cake with the family, my husband and I went into the kitchen and pretended to be doing nothing.  Then we ask for the family to come in, and then we sang happy birthday to my mom.

My mom then pretended she wasn’t expecting the cake, and then blew out the candle.  Even though I made a few mistakes and she even found the cake before she was supposed to, I think the most important thing is that my mom enjoyed and appreciated the cake I baked her.  If we focus on the mistakes of our lives too much, than we’ll miss out on the other wonderful things around us.  I know for myself and for others that can be hard to hear, but it’s worth working through those mistakes as it’ll make your life better.

Patricia   <3   :)

Ecclesiastes 3:6    A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away.

 

Here’s a song about we all have made mistakes sometimes, and we all step over that line at times, and you keep trying to act like everything is alright, but guilt can do a job on each person’s soul.  But with that there is nothing sweeter than forgiveness.  And remember as you are forgiven, to forgive others too.  No matter how lost, hurt, wrong, or who you are, you aren’t too far from forgiveness.

 

“Forgiveness”   by TobyMac – featuring Lecrae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfkhqpl81NA&list=PL3whQX319DaB37iB8NZpJe206iSdpe3kc&index=182