Aggressive ‘helicopter’ parents force egg hunt cancellation
Uncle said it best, “Jaaackieeee, EGGS DON’T MATTER!” [1]
It’s a perfect metaphor for what is wrong with our results-driven society where we claw and scrape and push and shove and lie and cheat to get what is ours. Why do you want it? Because others have it? It is a gluttonous age when we have more than we have ever had, but are more worried than ever of going without. When will we learn that these things don’t matter?
Whatever you believe, the message of this Easter season, the message of Jesus, is that these things don’t matter. Practically nothing matters. Even your life is transient, fleeting, superfluous.
What does matter is seeing others as yourself. The achievement of one is an achievement of all. The failure of one is a failure of all. We are all in it together, pulling together, sharing, caring, and loving. There is no “us vs. them,” because there is no “them.” There is only we.
What I would have liked for this Easter season egg hunt with the grabbing and clawing and selfishness, would have been for those who had claimed an egg to have shared with those that had none, that everybody would have seen the pain of a child who had none and said, there but for the grace of God go I.
These eggs are meaningless, valueless, if they do not represent the gift of love that I give to you, my neighbor.