The Lighter Side exists to keep us all from growing old and drying up because we never laugh. Everyone needs a good laugh every day and if we can just make you smile now and then it helps. We are told it take more facial muscles to frown than to smile. Smiling is contageous. Pass it on and affect as many others as possible.

White Lie Cake?

Have you ever told a white lie? You are going to love this,  especially those 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 the morning of the bake sale and after rummaging 
through cabinets, found an angel food cake mix and quickly made it while 
drying her hair, dressing, and helping her son pack for Scout camp. 
 
When Alice took the cake from the oven, the center had dropped flat 
and the cake was horribly disfigured. She thought, "Oh dear, there is 
not time to bake another cake." 
 
This cake was important 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 >center of the cake. 
 
Alice found it in the bathroom - a roll of toilet paper. She plunked 
it in and covered it with icing. Not only did the finished product 
look beautiful, it looked perfect. 
 
Before she left the house to drop the cake by the church and 
head for work, Alice woke her daughter Amanda 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 Amanda arrived at the sale, she found the attractive, perfect 
cake had already been sold. She grabbed her cell phone and called her 
mom. 
 
Alice was horrified - she was beside herself. Everyone would know! 
What would they think? She would be ostracized, talked about, and 
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 and bridal shower at the home 
of a fellow church member and just try to have a good time. 
 
Alice did not want to attend because the hostess was a snob who more 
than once had looked down her nose at Alice because she 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."