To this day I still cannot make the connection between Easter Eggs, chocolate rabbits and the Christian message which is celebrated on this day. I have fond memories of coloring hard boiled eggs with my mother when I was around 7 years old. I also remember hunting around the house for chocolate eggs that were allegedly left for me by the Easter Bunny. That was always on Easter Sunday morning after church services where I learned about the death and resurrection of Jesus.
The hidden value in that message was that, like Jesus, we do not have to turn to dust at the end of our life but under certain conditions, we can go on living in a different way. Whether that different way was better or worse than the life we left behind depended on whether we obeyed God or not. If not, our chances were pretty slim to none. When we die, we are dead...period...end of story. However, if we believe in God and try our best to obey the laws of God as Jesus did, then we can rise from the dead like Jesus and go on living forever like the characters in that Twilight movie. I never fully understood it but I could accept it because no one I had known ever came back from death and told me whether it was true or not.
Easter Eggs are a different story. First of all, they are delivered by the Easter Bunny and everyone knows how prolific bunnies can be. Start with two and before long you have a dozen. It will not take long for that dozen to turn into a lot of dozens and that is a lot of life from just two rabbits.
I am not sure how the Easter Bunny got tied up with the chickens that produce colored eggs, but I do know that chickens--unlike rabbits--come from eggs. I used to think that those live colored Peeps you could get at Easter came from colored eggs but now I know better. Anyway, since every egg is a chicken in the making, it is easy to see that eggs represent the cycle of life. Each egg is the rebirth of the chicken that laid it. But it is also true that rotten eggs cannot produce a chicken. That is not true for people. Rotten people can produce more people, but they do not have to be rotten people. I guess that is the hidden value of the Easter Message. But I still can't tell you why the Easter Bunny holds the patent on Easter eggs.
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