If I gave you a recipe

Would you use it?

If I gave you a recipe

Sitting on the shelf

How would you keep it?

To gain years of dust on it’s pages?

Sitting on a display in your kitchen

To pretend you use it frequently?

If I gave you a recipe

How often would you use it?

On holidays

To make your family proud?

On weekends 

To express yourself?

If I gave you a recipe

Who would you share it with?

A post on social media

To feed the hungry?

A stranger in the grocery store

To benefit another home?

If I gave you a recipe

What would it look like? 

Barely legible scribbled on a post card 

Handed down by generations?

Bound, printed, and glossy

Mass produced?

If I gave you a recipe 

What would be the ingredients?

The best ones can buy

Because it makes you feel better about your purchase?

The easiest to get a hold of 

Because you need it now?

If I gave you a recipe 

How long would it take?

Minutes 

Of your busy day?

Years

Of countless toiling to perfection?

If I gave you a recipe 

To love

To hope 

To life

Would you use it?