Just like a cake needs every ingredient to turn out well, the Family as a whole is greater than the strength of its individual members.
Alone, each ingredient is bland, and undesirable, but added to other ingredients, it has the potential to become the perfect recipe.
Just as every ingredient has a purpose, every member of a family has a purpose also.
Butter works in concert with other ingredients to give baked goods texture. This may be the peacemaker in your home.
Sugar keeps your baked goods soft and moist in addition to adding a sweet flavor. This would most likely be the family member that adds a little extra laughter and lightheartedness in a crazy world.
In addition to their nutritional value, eggs can provide structure, leavening, richness, color, and flavor to baked products. This would most likely be the head of your family, however in some cases it could be an older sibling. -The one who wants to keep everyone close and encourages time together.
Vanilla enhances all the other flavors in the recipe. Without it, cookies and cakes tend to taste flat and bland. This is the family member that keeps things interesting.
Flour provides structure. Structure is good. This has the potential to be the rule setter in your family. It could also be the family member that provides an example for others to follow.
Baking Powder is a leavening agent that causes batter to rise. This would be the family member that encourages you to do your best, and they are always there for you when you need a little extra lovins.
The purpose for salt is to enhance the flavor of the other ingredients. Its presence perks up the depth and complexity of other flavors as the ingredients meld as well as balancing the sweetness in a recipe. This would most likely be the family member who balances our the sweet by adding a little bit of unexpected spontaneity to your life.
Milk creates a strong batter, capable of rising and withstanding the rigors of baking. This is the person that holds you up when life gets to be more than you can handle.
Any one of these ingredients alone, although wonderful, cannot be fully useful or substantial in purpose without the other ingredients.
It doesn't just end there.
In some cases, you need substitutes. Whether the reasons be for dietary needs or otherwise. (Divorce or other family dynamics) A good substitution, depending on your situation may be whole wheat flour.
Some of us may have added members to our family. Added family members whether married or adopted into your family are like ice-cream to go with your cake, these individuals enhance the overall flavor of the cake.
This will most likely be different for you. Every cake is different. Even cakes found in the same bakery can be different, some you will like, others you may be unable to eat.
[My family is more like a fruit cake than anything else... there are a select few that appreciate fruit cakes]
What does your perfect cake look like?
Marianne Williamson
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
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