Consider the Egg

In this short excerpt, the author and priest Robert Farrar Capon describes just how intricate and beautiful one single part of God’s creation is, the chicken egg:

Forget for the moment the fantastic intricacy of the mechanism from which all higher forms of life spring. Disregard, too, the wonder of its parts, its divisions, and its tremendous complications. Omit, finally, all other eggs but one: no frogs’ eggs, ducks’ eggs, robins’ eggs, or goose eggs; no snake eggs, no dinosaur eggs, no platypus eggs, no roe; no ova of any sort or kind but the eggs of the common…