The Delight of Spring

The delight of Spring brings about many shades of color. Along with color there is an eliment of surprise! The delight of no longer wearing winter coats! Wearing sunglasses, feeling the sunshine warm on your skin. Putting on Car's rubber mud boots, finding eggs, and playing with trucks. Spending time with family and sharing a meal. Eating chocolate and great desserts that are light and airy. Breaking out the grill more times a week then only a select few days that it is above 30 degrees in Minnesota! Reading a book on the swing, sleeping with the windows OPEN! The most delightful thing of Spring is the lessening of ALLERGIES as we look forward to summer. Pussy willow branches, fields of mud and just waiting to play on the outside swing without a puddle to fall in. Brown grass and trees that bud waiting for the grass to green up. Looking forward to the smell of fresh cut grass as the aromoa of mud comes next year. Watching the birds and hearing them sing while waiting for rain to bring new worms to the surface of the earth. Waiting for the ice to melt to put the boats into the lakes. Sprint is a delightful waiting game as the earth wakes up.

It's about the Egg

So everyone asks or even wonders what came first; the CHICKEN or the EGG.

Every Easter we get out the dye, boil eggs and watch them so they don't break open, and so the tradition begins to make the best egg! You can claim your egg by writing your name on it, or dunk it in as many colors as you want to, or just be a boring egg and be one color. You can choose to let it sit for a short time and it is a pale color. A pale yellow, green, blue, pink, red, purple, orange. How I love a BRIGHT and VIVID colored egg. I love letting my egg to sit longer in the color and to soak in all that vibrant color to be a PERFECT egg.

Wonder and amazement comes while looking at that egg and then that question is still there; "What came first? The Chicken or the Egg?" Then and only then while spending time with kids or with family members do you think about the reason for this Easter Season. Tomorrow we will all be sitting in Church and listening to that message. It is the same message every year. John 3:16 "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son..." Jesus was a good egg. He was there in Heaven when God created the heavens and the earth.

God then made man, filled the whole earth with animals that Adam named. So you see there is your answer, The Chicken came first. Noah built an ark to keep that chicken safe from the flood. It was after the flood that the egg came. Just as Mary came first Jesus was born from an earthly egg of Mary the same way that we were born of our mothers. Even though Jesus was First and born of an Egg is pretty amazing and how God is amazing too perform that miracle. If Jesus is and already was how can he come from an Egg? That mystery is far more something to dwell on over the CHICKEN and the EGG. It makes you think about Psalm 139:13 "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14) I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made, your works are wonderful. I know that full well. 15) My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the SECRET PLACE.

All through our lives going back through time to our ancestors, some one was always there! Through the offspring of the women's egg we all came to being. So next Easter, remember that the Chicken was the masterpiece and the egg was the reward for God's great art. Just as you are a masterpiece from generation to generation being fat, skinny, flat hair, thin hair, thick hair, curly or straight. Whether you can sing, or can't carry a tune; you can still sing unto the Lord because you are precious in his sight because you are who you are designed to be! You are his beloved priceless work of art that came from an Egg from the Master Artist! I can't wait for next Easter to dye more eggs and ponder some more on what Christ has done for me! His perfect body that came through an EGG that was crushed beyond recognition so we can celebrate Easter dying eggs, eating CHOCOLATE, and see for ourselves GOD'S GLORY! I pray that you have him in your life so that you remain a GOOD EGG for ETERNITY!