[This is an interactive sermon. In order to preach this well, you need to allow your congregants to take part, answer questions, imagine themselves as part of the story.]

Prop: ostrich egg

I have here an egg.   [You can pass around the egg.]

This egg belongs to an ostrich. Let me tell you a story about the ostrich, who one day took her eyes off of the place in the sand where she buried her eggs. Lo and behold, when she finally remembered where she had hid them, a predator had come in the night and stolen her babies away. Heart stricken, she had no family to carry on her lineage.

Now let me give you some background –a bit of a “provenance” about the ostrich and her egg.

The ostrich has a poor memory, the original “bird brain” about the size of a pea. When she lays her eggs in the deser…