| Some of you may be too kind to say it. But I can tell | | | | opinions, backgrounds, values, and thinking styles to |
| you're thinking, "I don't know what you know about | | | | make life interesting. Differences need to be valued. |
| life, but I think you've learned a bit too much about | | | | Because without them, life is bland. It will taste like a |
| Betty Crocker." | | | | cake made only out of water! |
| Yes, I've learned a great deal about Betty Crocker | | | | But Betty Crocker also says to mix on LOW speed. |
| over the past forty-some years. I've sat at her table | | | | This tells me that people need time to work |
| many times. But as much as I've learned ABOUT her, | | | | together, to make a team. It takes time to get from |
| I've learned more FROM her! | | | | forming to performing. |
| You're probably thinking, "Yup, I knew it, you've | | | | Yes, all I needed to learn in life about getting along |
| finally gone off your rocker. Jean's been creative one | | | | with people, I learned from Betty Crocker. |
| too many times! All she's learned from Betty Crocker | | | | Next, Betty Crocker tells me that I need to bake the |
| is how to gain weight!" | | | | cake in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes. |
| Well, you're wrong. And I'll tell you why. | | | | Now, you might be thinking - now Jean's talking. She's |
| Consider the simple box of Betty Crocker cake mix. | | | | telling me that I need a vacation in Cuba. |
| You may think it's only a cake mix with the | | | | No such luck! Think of heat as trials and tribulations. |
| instructions for baking a cake on the back. But when | | | | I'm telling you that in order to succeed in life, you |
| I pick up this box and read the back, I see | | | | need to have some difficulties. |
| instructions for living a successful life! | | | | A cake placed into a cold oven isn't going to rise, to |
| First off at the top, before the four steps to making | | | | become tender. The baking powder needs heat to |
| a cake, Betty Crocker tells me what ingredients I will | | | | work. In the same way, without trials and tribulations |
| need. This tells me in order to succeed in baking a | | | | in our life, we aren't tender of heart, compassionate. |
| cake, and in life, I need to be organized. She's telling | | | | How many of us before facing the heat of |
| me that in order to be successful in life, I need to | | | | unemployment, think about the poor? If we do, it's |
| know where I want to go. Then I need to think | | | | generally either to think ourselves better than them. |
| ahead and plan what it takes to get there. I need to | | | | Or to give them a fleeting thought as we give |
| assess whether I have what it takes - and if not, | | | | money to our favourite charity. But after time |
| how I can get the skills I need for the job I want to | | | | without a job, we gain compassion and tenderness |
| do. | | | | towards the needs of the poor, we understand their |
| Yes, all I needed to learn in life about thinking ahead, | | | | concerns. Yes, trials and tribulations tenderize our |
| I learned from Betty Crocker. | | | | hearts. |
| Step #1 says to heat your oven - and grease and | | | | But we can't be left too long in the oven of |
| flour your pan. From this, I learn that it doesn't take | | | | tribulation otherwise we become dried out, hard, |
| just planning, it takes action, to make something | | | | bitter in the same way a cake left too long in the |
| work. All the planning in the world isn't going to make | | | | oven turns into a hard, dry mass. |
| me lose weight if I don't diet or exercise. You've got | | | | Yes, everything I needed to know in life about |
| to do, as well as think! | | | | compassion, I learned from Betty Crocker. |
| Yes, all I needed to learn in life about taking action, I | | | | The final thing Betty Crocker teaches me about life is |
| learned from Betty Crocker. | | | | that you've got to frost the cake. You've got to add |
| Step #2 tells me to beat together the cake mix, | | | | something sinfully delicious to an already tasty cake. |
| water, oil, and eggs in a large bowl on LOW speed | | | | Betty tells me that to change my life from |
| for 2 MINUTES. | | | | satisfactory to sensational, I need to do something |
| By this Betty Crocker teaches me that you need | | | | for myself, take time for myself, find out what |
| more than just one ingredient to make things | | | | completes my soul. |
| interesting. You need diversity. You can't make a | | | | Yes, everything I needed to know in life about living |
| cake by mixing water with water - it ain't gonna | | | | life to the fullest, I learned from Betty Crocker. |
| work! | | | | So the next time you are at the supermarket, pick |
| In the same way, if I try to make people over so | | | | up Betty Crocker and place her in your cart. Because |
| that they are more like me, it ain't gonna work. Just | | | | all you need to learn in life, you can learn from Betty |
| as you need oil and water and eggs and cake mix to | | | | Crocker! |
| make a tasty cake, you need people with different | | | | |