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WHEN IS AN EGG NO LONGER AN EGG?

In my early morning call to my best friend, Jesus, at 5:am, I wanted to know how to present the three persons in a single theological explanation of who God is and what He is all about. Mind you, this is not just a question to bring understanding, but one that, if answered, may shed light on many things I know the Lord has been teaching me over the past 50 years.

Allow me to share a view of our early walk with the Lord, which began during a financial crisis. While juggling my newfound faith with my work as a sprinkler fitter and my previous life before the Cross as a seller of drugs on construction sites, things started to go south. In my zealous state as a newborn Christian, I was telling everybody about my conversion. My previous customer would say, “Ya, but all I want to know is you still selling?”. My answer was the same to all: “No, I flushed it all down the toilet.” The shock on their faces was nearly comical, but then came the anger, distrust, and loss of my job. Reality check, nobody wants an ex-drug dealer around that would possibly be their downfall. Soon, a Christian artist friend saw our situation and felt we needed to see ourselves within it to move in the right direction, with understanding, and to give us a start toward recovery. One day, she presented us with a framed 10” x 10” picture of a broken egg. Her statement to us at the time was, “I have no idea why the Lord would want me to paint a broken egg, but I know that it will be up to you to discover its meaning.