As a child, I disliked eating eggs so much that my mother, who thought that eggs are always “good for you,” was frustrated when I refused them. After witnessing her frustration, my Aunt Mildred, who was visiting, said to me, “The only reason you don’t like eggs is because you’ve never had egginacup” (all one word). I was intrigued and asked her what that might be. She said, “I’ll show you, and you’ll really like it!” She took over the stove and cooked one slightly soft boiled egg, removed it, peeled it and cut it up into a coffee cup. She sprinkled it with salt and pepper, and served it to me warm with a spoon. I had never eaten an egg with a spoon, or used a coffee cup before, and the whole process seemed entirely new to me.

Aunt Mildred was right. I did like the soft boiled egg, and I did like eating it with a spoon. It wasn’t until she left, though, that I noticed that there wasn’t much difference between an egginacup and a fried egg that you eat with a fork.

What had changed? First of all, I had met another adult who was interested in my eating preferences . Second, Aunt Mildred introduced a whole new style of eating an egg, and third, she didn’t suggest that it was somehow “good for me,” but that I would enjoy it.

When Jesus appeared on earth, he brought a new way of living, a change in the ingrained patterns that had prevailed among his people for generations. St. Paul wrote,”I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.” (Ephesians 1:18-19)

These words of Paul express the opening of a new relationship to God, that Paul himself experienced. The risen Jesus had said to Paul, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting: it is hard for you to kick against the goads.” (Acts 9:5, KJV)

The new life of Jesus opened Paul’s spirit to the Holy Spirit of God, and transformed Saul into the “great apostle Paul, of Christ” God did it for the sake of us in the world, for His son, and for Paul himself, for this is the new life in Christ.

Aunt Mildred changed me for the sake of my mother, as well as for me and my growing up. The love of family is at work in each member. It is at work in our lives through Christ ,our brother, and God, our Father. They offer us supernatural egginacup.

Love in Him,

Prue