Cookie Cutter Conundrum (Part 1 of 2)
Discovering the ingredients for a delicious life!
We are humans not robots and we’re trying to build relationships not to bake cookies. Although cookies can help promote good relationships!
So, speaking of baking cookies, may I share this rutty recipe to help you live a better life? Also, may I mix some baking wisdom into your daily mingling with other mortals? For example, the family unit, like baking cookies, has many different ingredients. Each parent and child have their own unique flavors and flaws. Yet, each are important and needed for the success and tastiness of the treats.
Finding the right ingredients, using them wisely, and at the proper time and temperature can help you bake delicious relationships.
While it can be a delicate process, when done deliberately, and with love, it can be one that will bring beautiful opportunities and experiences into your world. No, some people may not always mix together well with your world. Or, sometimes they may take more effort to mix together, or it’s not the right time to mix them in and we just need mix in some more patience until the recipe calls for them.
Occasionally, we will need to add extra patience while we acquire the proper ingredients, or let our friendships and relationships bake a little longer in love’s oven.
Sometimes we need to use a little less salt, or more sugar in how we speak to and treat one another. There will also be moments every choice chef and benevolent baker dread—leaving their tasty morsels in the oven too long! If we’re not careful with our loved ones, feelings can get singed, or burned. Sometimes, we don’t let things bake long enough and we get impatient instead of trusting the timing of the recipe. When that’s the case, you don’t need to throw everything away, including the recipe. Just get some fresh ingredients and begin again. Perhaps this time, mix in an extra scoop of forgiveness and always mix in lots of love.
Love can be mixed in any time and in any amount; the more the better.
Some of you may feel like you’re doing your best as bakers, but feel like you’re missing ingredients, or have too many ingredients. Maybe you feel like your family recipe doesn’t call for your personal uniqueness. You may feel like you’re not as cool, capable, or crucial as the other “ingredients” already in the recipe. You might feel (from being told too many times by others) as if your personality might ruin the recipe and add defection to the refection somehow. This is not true!
You do have and are something special and wonderful to add to the recipe that no one else can add!
Some of you may also be part of a family that has blended together other recipes from different benevolent bakers. Maybe some of you are not missing ingredients, but YOU are the missing ingredient that that family, or friend, has been waiting and searching for. Also, a few nuts in the family, or circle of friends, can give the cookies a nice creative crunch!
So, what does your recipe call for today? What missing ingredients do you need to help you live a better, more delicious and happy life?
Remember that no matter the recipe, we all come from different pantries and pathways of life. And even the best recipes always call for extra scoops of patience, mixed with perseverance, and especially with lots of love.