Love Has the Power

This is a neat simple science project, which can be used for a Children’s five or youth illustration.  Easy as 1,2,3 all you need is 3 days of waiting, 2 chicken eggs and a large glass of white vinegar (man, I’m hearing Christmas music in my head…I want five golden rings!)

Allow three days from beginning to end.
Place one chicken egg, fresh not boiled, and submerge it in a glass of white vinegar.  Retain the additional egg for comparison.
You should be able to see through the glass to view the contents.  Place in a careful spot where it won’t be bothered, heated or frozen.  Do not place in the refrigerator.  Sitting on a counter is fine.
Allow the egg to remain within the glass for three days.
On the third day, compare the two eggs, egg without vinegar bath has hard, inflexible shell.  Egg with vinegar bath is inflated, larger, rubbery, flexible, squeezable.  

But don’t squeeze too hard – both eggs are fragile.  If you are a dramatic sort, you could show how easily both eggs can be broken.

Moral – Life is fragile, love is gentle but powerful

The vinegar slowly but gently acts as an abrasive on the shell of the egg, removing the hard spots, the thicknesses, the brittle places and creates a flexible strength which still contains the contents.
And egg, a heart; vinegar – God’s love

Love is like that in our hearts – it smooths out the rough patches, removes grudges, slowly devours anger and hurt and brings trust and forgiveness.  It takes away the brittleness and replaces it with flexibility

I Corinthians 13:4-7, “Love is patient, love is kind.It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails.”

Is there someone in your life who needs a Divine helping of love, a love that comes from the unconditional well of grace and mercy?  Take them to the well, draw it out and drink with them.  God’s love never fails!

Love Has The Power

Brittle hearts, brittle lives,
Immovable.
Fractured trust, blatant lies,
Unproveable.
Lives broken down because of fear and pride,
Isolated and lonely, huddled inside
Of a place they’ve created for shelter – security
And cynically stated, “ I’m safe in maturity.
I don’t need anyone, people bring pain…
I’m fine and complete, there is nothing to gain
From a newness, a friendship, a bothersome try
Hello is useless, it always leads to goodbye.”

“Will anyone ever come and look for me?
Will anyone stop avoiding, rejecting me?
I need something more,
Can you tell me there’s more
To this life, this today, this empty right now?
I’m searching for something, to find it, uncertain how.
A solution to this painful, silent ache, has to be
Because me is so much lonelier than we.”

Love has the power you need.

Generous hearts, caring lives –
We have to be moveable.
Restored trust, forgiven lies –
Love is tangible, proveable.
Love has the power to make fragile parts flexible;
Love has the power to make honest trust accessible.
Love has the power to fills in the cracks
Of the fissures in your heart, where there are visible tracks –
Someone has walked carelessly all over your heart.
There is love for you, tender love, God knows every part
Of the distance and actions that kept you away:
God looks in you and sees treasure and pleasure today.

God’s love has the power you need.

jsi