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whose hand was sore from all you are going to make a mess of
the piping. what you have already worked
to gain, but it doesn’t mean it is a
Linda has shown me more lost cause. Starting a bakery and
kindness in the short time that keeping it afloat is not going to be
I have known her than many a simple endeavor, I know that, but
people experience in their whole it doesn’t mean it is an impossible
lives. She has continued to pour dream either. It is a challenge. It is a
into me, whether it’s buying me 3D rubber ducky cake that needs to
new tools or gadgets or giving be completely covered with small,
me a hug. I always thought yellow dots. Linda taught me to
baking was about throwing some take it “one dot at a time.”
ingredients into a pan and
popping it in the oven,
but Linda showed me that
would not be selling cakes like I there is so much more to it
have been.
than that.
Linda, however, has not only Baking is an exact science on
prepared me for the challenges of its own. Everything can and
making and decorating cakes, she will go wrong at any moment.
has also taught me lessons for the Linda’s “yellow dot” lesson
challenges of life. She has shown me taught me the importance of
what a true woman of God looks patience, something that I
like. She embodies the fruit of the struggle with more often than
spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, not, and that everything isn’t
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, always going to go my way,
gentleness, and self control. Her but it’s how I choose to adapt
heart truly beats for Jesus, and I that will help me in the long
hope one day to live my life the way run. Piping each detail takes
she does: glorifying God daily in consistency and time, both of
everything I do and say as Linda which require patience, and
does.
if you mess up by running
One lesson will always be burned your arm along the side, you
into my memory. On this particular must find a way to correct it.
day, I walked into her kitchen to For me it’s by taking a breath,
find a 3D rubber ducky cake sitting grabbing a
on the counter. “Today’s lesson is toothpick,
on patience,” Mrs. Linda told me and
with a Cheshire grin on her face removing
and an almost mischievous tone. the
I was tasked with decorating the mistake,
large duck with yellow dots. To this so I can
day, I have yet to do anything more start again.
tedious than to individually pipe I realize
yellow dots on a large duck cake. that,
I chuckle now at my younger self in life,
sometimes

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