God, the Giver of Good Eggs

Just finished a plate of eggs and it got me thinking...

When I was a kid, my mom alternated between hot cereal and eggs for breakfast. Eggs were thought to be so-so nutritionally...some good, some bad. The cholesterol was presented as the major downside. So my mom, the daughter of a nutritionist, followed this plan for years. I appreciated her mindfulness.

Yet, like most conventional wisdom, time has shown that nutritional advice to be not so wise. Eggs are nutritional powerhouses. More yet...they contain a large proportion of what is termed "good" cholesterol vs. "bad" cholesterol. Of course, there is a limit to how much of them we should eat daily, but for the price, there is hardly a better kind of food out there.

I disagree with the last link on one point: I do think free range chicken eggs are healthier and more nutritionally vibrant....all I can say is that I have seen and tasted the difference. It is almost scary how deep a yellow organic eggs are.

Jesus speaks of the God Father wanting to give us eggs rather than scorpions as a way of reassuring us that His benevolences are eagerly made available to us if we just ask. It is actually pretty simple...would Jesus fool us into thinking that eggs are a good gift if they were not...and that we should actually prefer a scorpion? Nonsense.

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