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Martyr Banana Bread Recipe
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, 
Along with all malice.
Ephesians 4:31

Nearly everyone likes a warm slice of banana bread.  Here is a variation of it that will have unexpected results.

 

First start with good intentions to make use of the three slightly bruised bananas on your kitchen counter.

 

Add to this a beautiful Indian summer day, with its gentle breezes and warm sunshine caresses, and a quiet house while the family is gone to school and work.

 

Decide to enjoy the day later, after being a good girl and doing what you should.

 

Next, while the oven preheats, check your email.  Discover to your delight that a dear friend is online.  Engage in lively conversation and forget good intentions.

 

After a while, remember the bread and drag yourself back to the kitchen.  Gaze longingly outside at the gorgeous day while reminding yourself that you must not waste the bananas and that you must make bread today.

 

While gathering the recipe's ingredients, recall all the chores done, all the appointments kept, and all the neglected playtime.  Be sure to open the window to let in the fresh air and to deepen your resentment that duty has ruined your fun yet again.

 

As you mash the bananas and prepare the bread batter, add the air of grim satisfaction that, although you have missed a beautiful afternoon, your family will enjoy the fresh bread.  How pleased they will be that you sacrificed an afternoon for them!

 

Pour batter into pan along with a smidgen of bitterness about the whole situation.  Bake bread according  to recipe directions.

 

While bread is in oven, complain to online friend about being stuck in the house on a pretty day, thus ruining her day, too.

 

Let bread cool on rack along with animosity.  Feel smug about being dutiful, about using the bananas, and about giving up an afternoon of appreciating God's creation to make one of your own.

 

In a few days, throw out uneaten bread spoiled by bitterness and resignation.  File recipe under "opportunity lost."  Although the bananas weren't wasted, so many more important things were!

 

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,
And acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
Hosea 6:6