"EGGceptional Blessings!"

My daughter is a constant source of Joy and entertainment; in fact her middle name is Joy.  She gets so excited whenever she hears about a party.  Last weekend she went to her best friends birthday party, for weeks prior it was all we heard about.

This week, she had her Easter Party at day care.  She has been excited about this party for days.  She was excited to help her mother buy eggs and fill them with candy.

When we picked her up from school that day her teacher told us about the Easter Egg Hunt they had.  She said that they spread over 200 eggs in the small play area outside.  When they gave the signal to start our daughter, who is two, proceeded to sprint around the yard like an Olympian, gathering in 5 times the amount of eggs as the other kids.  Her bag was so full the teachers had to ask her to share with the other (slower) kids.

I wish I could have seen her in action!  But as me and my wife were chuckling about this during our morning coffee, I couldn't help but making a parallel to our Christian Walk, it's what I do...

There were so many eggs spread out in that yard for everyone to have more than enough, for every child's bag to be overflowing.  In the same way, the Lord has laid out blessings for each one of us, His children.  Unfortunately too often, we don't take the time to gather them up, or we think that we can't have too many.

So as we approach this Easter weekend, consider all the Lord has done, all the ways He has blessed you, and perhaps the ways in which He could bless you if you would simply claim them and gather them up.

I leave you with a passage from Ephesians 3:16-21:

"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."