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Thursday 19th March 2015<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

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Good morning This time of day is a little early for my breakfast but I’m already looking forward to some scrambled eggs and maybe smoked salmon. Will it be a bagel or toast? Too many choices. IÌýhope there will be no bits of eggshell in the scrambled egg – there’s nothing worse, guaranteed to spoil a good breakfast!

On this day in 1994 one of the largest omelettes ever made was cooked in Yokohama, Japan. It took 160 000 eggs. I can imagine there were a few shells cooked into the omelette but the chefs could surely have been excused on that occasion given the cracking enormity of the task.

For after all you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs. The inference is that in doing something good there will always be negative implications. I would like to think that isn’t always the case, that negative implications can at least be minimized, even if not eradicated. Minimizing negative implication is about mindfulness of others and mindfulness in how we go about things.

You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs, but then eggs are only useful when they are broken. It isn’t the same for people. A broken egg provides a great breakfast but breaking people is quite another thing. We can damage other people very easily and without thought and it matters. So he Bible urges us to think differently:

ÌýAnd you should not do anything with contention or empty glory, but in humility of mind, let every person esteem his neighbour as better than himself.

ÌýSo today Lord we pray for those who have been intentionally or unintentionally broken by others and we ask for their healing and help. Amen