Egg
Toss
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a
bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining
an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being
just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C.S. Lewis
I have told many stories of my childhood and
I thought today would be a good day to share another of those stories. I love this saying by C.S. Lewis. We can either be a decent ordinary egg our
entire lives, or as I say we can be an extraordinary egg.
My brother and I were out in the woods behind
our house with my Dad. I am sure Dad was
working or cutting wood or something productive but my brother and I were
mostly goofing off. We had gone to the
barn earlier that morning and gathered eggs.
Unbeknownst to me, my brother had held onto one of the eggs.
So I am walking through the woods, minding my
own business, when something comes sailing through the trees. The problem with this was my brother knew it
was headed for me but I didn’t and he really didn’t give me a heads up or in
this case head duck. The reason he knew
it was because he is the one who threw the egg.
So I am walking along and all of a sudden I get smacked upside, (I don’t
think that is a word but it sounds right for this story), the head with a raw
egg.
Since my brother played baseball when he was
younger, I guess he was a better pitcher than he thought because his aim was
good that day. He missed every tree
branch so the egg had nothing to stop its momentum except me. So here I am standing in the woods with egg
running down the side of my head. I
think it surprised me more than anything but I am sure I cried because it
shocked me. It wasn’t like I got a goose
egg from it or in this case a chicken egg.
He got in trouble of course, but I don’t quite remember the punishment
since there is not anything in the Kid Manual about what punishment is required
for hitting your sister upside the head with a raw egg. That was a new one for
my Dad and he had lots of practice with four kids.
I love the analogy of being hatched or going
bad. That is so true. Our lives are like a long incubation
period. This is when we are learning and
growing in our spiritual life.
We had an incubator when I was young and it
always fascinated me that you could place eggs in this thing and later the
chicks would hatch. The thing is you had
to make sure the light source stayed on continuously and you had to go out
every day and turn the eggs. That is
what God is to us. He is our light
source and he turns us every day. In the
turning process he may give us challenges or trials that help us mature so that
one day we too will hatch. It is up to
us whether we will be a decent egg, an extraordinary egg or a rotten egg.
Prayer for the Day:
Heavenly Father, I sometimes allow worldly things to distract me and it is like
my brain has a short circuit or sometimes an entire power outage. Those are the times that I need to cling to
you with everything in me. I praise You for loving me enough to wait until the
lights come back on.
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