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Those Impossible Eggs

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Posted by member: mabethea

I think I may have gotten this idea from Children's Ministry Magazine. I have used these in 3 different churches, giving them out on Ash Wednesday. I have a special Children's event during the Ash Wednesday service where the children "stuff" the eggs with the scriptures after we have talked about them. As the adults leave the service, the children give out the eggs with the "explanation sheet." I've gotten wonderful and powerful testimonies from this activity, including my own!

Explanation sheet (you can print two of these on a sheet):

Those Impossible Eggs

The egg has always been important, especially as a symbol of new life. That is why it has particular meaning and significance during the Lenten and Easter season. Someone has called it the "impossible egg." Outwardly it seems almost impossible that a living creature could emerge from such an enclosure without access to the outside world for sustenance. But a living creature does break that shell and steps out into a vast new universe. Today at the beginning of Lent each of us has our own personal impossible egg.
Surely everyone has a secret wish or deep sincere desire for yourself or another which seems almost impossible to attain. With prayer and dedication, your egg can be a daily reminder that God can do the impossible. Let Him speak to you through your egg from now until Easter.

Prayer: Our Father, we know every good and perfect gift comes from You. Help us to ask in faith believing You will answer as we pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Open your egg. After reading your verse, turn over the paper, and write on the back your sincere desire, your seemingly impossible dream. Fold the paper, put it back into the egg, and join the shells together again. Take the egg home and put it on your table or some other prominent place where you will see it every day. Do not open it again until Easter. Allow it to incubate. Repeat your verse daily. Let prayer nurture your desire until it becomes the substance of things hoped for and evidence in tangible form.

Prayer: Father, we go in faith. As Jesus emerged from the tomb, may our hidden desires find new life. As living creatures break forth from confining shells may we see our requests become reality. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

Scriptures (put one in each egg):

Luke 11:9 So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Matt. 19:26 Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.

Mark 9:23 Everything is possible for him who believes.

Matt. 8:13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go! It will be done just as you believed it would." And his servant was healed at that very hour.

John 20:31 But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Gal. 3:22 But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised being through faith is Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.

Luke 1:37 For nothing is impossible with God.

Heb. 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Eph. 3:20 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.

Heb. 13:5 Never will I leave you. Never will I forsake you.

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Editor's Note:
CreativeCarol updated this idea and re-posted it in the Holy Week "General" forum, "MISC ART PROJECTS" thread.

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