Lent baking challenge, wk 3

Rocky road try bake

Week 2: Rocky road tray bake  

Last week we were thinking about Jesus teaching about the Law in the temple - loving God and loving your neighbour. This week, we're back in the temple once more, and things get a little bit ...well, rockier.
Jesus enters the temple and finds it full of people buying and selling, and cheating each other. He thunders, ‘This places is meant to be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves!’
Sometimes we feel that anger isn’t a very Christian emotion, but feeling righteous anger can be a very holy thing indeed, if it causes us to act and to change things that need changing.   

Recipe
You will need:
200g of biscuits (digestives or rich tea biscuits work well)
135g of butter or margarine
200g of chocolate
2 or 3 tbsp of golden syrup
100g of mini marshmallows- or chopped up normal size marshmallows
100g of 'other' - e.g. dried fruit or hoop cereal or chocolate chips... to add to the mix

Method/
Put 200g of biscuits in a bag, and bash them with a rolling pin until they’re well smashed up.
As you bash, bring to mind the injustices in the world that you feel angry about. 
Melt 135g of butter or margarine with 200g of chocolate and 2 or 3 tbsp of golden syrup. You can get away with less chocolate if you can’t find much by adding a bit more butter, some sugar, preferably light brown muscavado, and cocoa powder instead.
Tip the biscuits into the melted mixture, along with 100g of marshmallows
Mix in the 100g of your 'other' random ingredient.
As you add all your different ingredients, think about the different ways in which people find solutions to problems in the world. 
Mix it all together, and tip it into a baking tin, smoothing it right into the corners.
Chill, and cut into slices to eat.

Pour yourself a cuppa, grab a piece of rocky road, pull up a chair... Take a little time to think about the world, and your local community - pray for those situations and circumstances that you see are unjust, or where there is no peace. What ways might you  find to work to bring into these places and situations God’s justice and peace?

A prayer/
Holy God,
in Jesus Christ you have built for us an eternal house,
a temple of righteousness, a place of gracious plenty for the hungry
and abundant life for the poor in spirit.
Fill us with zeal for the body of Christ.
Overturn the tables of corruption and greed
and upset the imbalance of injustice,
so that we may worship you in spirit and truth;
through Jesus Christ, who is risen indeed.
Amen