When Gracie’s oldest child came home from school discouraged with school and life because of an altercation with a classmate, her mother taught her a beautiful lesson about how to deal with unpleasant experiences.
The mother asked, “If I gave you a teaspoon of salt, or a tablespoon of soda, or a cup of flour to eat, or a cup of oil to drink, how would you like it?”
“Yuk!” the daughter gasped.
But if I mixed all these things together and baked a cake would you eat it?” the mother continued.