Paula Craig - The Easter Egg

THE EASTER EGG

 

Let’s crack this Mystery of the 3 Fold Nature of God.

We can peel away much of our confusion and distrust if we relax and let our senses tell us essential things.

 

(a small basket of colored, hard boiled eggs with Christian symbols on them:  a Roman cross, Chi Rho, 3 circles, a butterfly, St. Andrew’s cross, --- beautiful, artistic, a delight to the eye.)  Every child gets one.

 

Sometimes it breaks our hearts to break the beauty. We want to keep it/possess it/ stay just as we are in our innocence.  But the breaking, the tearing away, the letting go of the outside is absolutely necessary to experience the inner reality (as Jesus showed us, John explained, “I must go so that the Holy Spirit comes to you.”)  The spirit of God takes many shapes.

 

As the covering shell, the protective shape of the Holy Spirit that is delivered to us generation after generation falls away by our action, the smooth whiteness of The Christ is revealed.  It is a different texture – another reality – flexible, nourishing, adaptable, yielding, protecting but ready to reveal the Center.  It has thick and thin places; the medium in which this seed of life grows, holding still to be graspable for us.  When it is torn apart/ bitten into, there is the golden Center, the Essence of Life – soft, but firm.  It can be flavored many ways, displayed in many ways and all are nourishing.  What was watery in making the mystery of new life of a breathing creature holds still for us, so that we can grasp it; ingest it; make it part of what we are.

 

An incredible Gift – This Cosmic Egg

Child, hold it in your hand – the gift of the Holy Spirit.  Break it as Jesus was broken and feel the Christ.  Look inside and discover the Center – God waiting for you.  Salt it with the flavor of the people around you.  Bite into it.  Chew it.  And make it a part of your body.  Hummmmm    good.

 

Holy Trinity, One God.          Amen