THE BAPTIST WHITE LIE CAKE
Have you ever told a white lie? You are going to love this, especially
all of the ladies who bake for church events: Alice Grayson was to bake
a cake for the Baptist Church Ladies' Group in Tuscaloosa, but forgot to
do it until the last minute. She remembered it the morning of the bake
sale and after rummaging through cabinets, found an angel food cake mix
& quickly made it while drying her hair, dressing, and helping her son
pack up for Scout camp.
When she took the cake from the oven, the centre had dropped flat and
the cake was horribly disfigured and she exclaimed, "Oh dear, there is
not time to bake another cake!" This cake was im****tant to Alice because
she did so want to fit in at her new church, and in her new community of
friends. So, being inventive, she looked around the house for something
to build up the centre of The cake. She found it in the bathroom - a
roll of toilet paper. She plunked it in and then covered it with icing.
Not only did the finished product look beautiful, it looked perfect.
And, before she left the house to drop the cake by the church and head
for work, Alice woke her daughter and gave her some money and specific
instructions to be at the bake sale the moment it opened at 9:30 and to
buy the cake and bring it home. When the daughter arrived at the sale,
she found the attractive, perfect cake had already been sold. Amanda
grabbed her cell phone & called her mom. Alice was horrified-she was
beside herself! Everyone would know! What would they think? She would be
ostracized, talked about, ridiculed! All night, Alice lay awake in bed
thinking about people pointing fingers at her and talking about her
behind her back.
The next day, Alice promised herself she would try not to think about
the cake and would attend the fancy luncheon/bridal shower at the home
of a fellow church member and try to have a good time. She did not
really want to attend because the hostess was a snob who more than once
had looked down her nose at the fact that Alice was a single parent and
not from the founding families of Tuscaloosa, but having already RSVP'd
, she couldn't think of a believable excuse to stay home. The meal was
elegant, the company was definitely upper crust old south and to Alice
's horror, the cake in question was presented for dessert!
Alice felt the blood drain from her body when she saw the cake! She
started out of her chair to tell the hostess all about it, but before
she could get to her feet, the Mayor's wife said, "what a beautiful
cake!" Alice, still stunned, sat back in her chair when she heard the
hostess (who was a prominent church member) say, "Thank you, I baked it
myself."
Alice smiled and thought to herself, "God is good."
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Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher
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