Geese looking for their eggs? How could something so detached from my daily life make such a great impact? Geese looking for the eggs they had previously laid. Eggs that had not hatched three months after they were laid. Typically eggs hatch around 30 days.Three months of sitting, sitting, and expecting new life.  But today the geese could not find their eggs. They were missing.

When author Margaret Feinberg in Scouting the Divine, asked what happened to the eggs, Lynn revealed she had thrown the eggs in the creek! Margaret's response reflected my own. "My eyes bugged in disbelief. I couldn't help blurting out, 'why?'" These actions seemed cold and cruel--a far cry from the women who loved her sheep. 

“Because they were infertile,” Lynn said. “They will never hatch. I need to get these geese back to their regular life….The only way to get them back to the way they’re supposed to be living is to take away their dead eggs.”

Sometimes compassion and wisdom remove the dead eggs.

What are the “dead eggs” in your life? What are the empty promises of the enemy that will never yield life—only self-destruction and death. How long will we focus on the pain of the past, ruminating about the past, wishing it was different. How long will we stay stuck in something that has taken us off track? 

Perhaps God is saying, “It’s time to get back to the life I’ve given you.”

What are your “dead eggs?”

How have you helped others remove their dead eggs?