We need them for breakfast,
for cookies and cakes.
Without them a souffle won’t rise.
We need them for ice cream
and Mandarin soup.
Their worth is not based on their size.

Yet without them,
we face an egg-ceptional crisis.
We hoped the temporary shortage
would be over-easy.
But this hard-boiled dilemma
isn’t going away quickly.
Feeling fried trying to find solutions,
we are scrambling for available cartons.
We beat it to our local grocery store
when what we’ve come to count on
is in short supply.
We long for a return to normal.
In the meantime, we find ourselves
willing to poach another’s reserves.

In times like these,
envy stalks our contentment.
And when we claim otherwise,
we are caught in an omelet of our own making
with egg all over our face.

Guilty as charged, Lord.
When what we rely on for convenience
isn’t readily available,
we tend to fixate on what others have
instead of being grateful for what is already ours.
Teach us to be sunny-side-up blessing counters.
Use this current situation
to hatch a spirit of gratitude within us.

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