What’s Up With Bunnies & Eggs?
Ever wonder why rabbits, who are mammals, bring chicken eggs at Easter?
As the father of 10 — seven here and three in heaven from miscarriages — I’ve been asked many times “why so many kids?”
Sometime in the last 100 years or so our “advanced, enlightened society” stopped looking at children as blessings and started looking at them as:
- expenses
- inconveniences
- disruptions
- creators of stretch marks
- ruinous to bikini competitions
- interruptions to “spontaneous” sex
But at Easter we have a symbol of a prolific procreator — the rabbit — bring a fragile symbol of life — the chicken egg — and hide those little gifts.
We then go searching for those gifts.
So we’re searching for fragile gifts that represent life.
And when we watch our kids — and help our kids — we are excited about life.
We intuitively and naturally want to gather up all the life we can in the form of the neighborhood Easter egg hunt.
We value life and want all of it we can get when it’s holding chocolate or hard candies or a quarter or a $1 bill.
This weekend take a moment to ponder and marvel at and embrace and enjoy and appreciate and love all life from:
- its most fragile state at the moment of conception to
- its perfectly-imperfect state in the form of someone with a physical or mental disability to
- its fatally-flawed state in the form of our impatient, judgmental, resentful, opinionated, coveting, lustful, gossiping, sinful selves
- to its fading state in the form of a friend or family member fighting cancer, dementia, or any other form of disease that is slowly eroding their physical life but can never destroy our spiritual life.
It’s only a weekend.
Monday will be here before you know it — or maybe want it to be — and you can return to your normal, harried, rushing-around, oblivious self and nobody will have to know you pondered such marvelous things this weekend.
Or maybe such ponderings will help you, will move you, will guide you to something…better.
Can you do me one teeny, tiny, itsy bitsy little favor?
Bookmark this post and let me know how you feel Monday after doing this?
Happy Easter. May God Bless You.
