Mary Geegh traveled throughout India teaching men and women, pastors and school principals and Indian Pundits, how to hear from God.

She spoke with women who were determined to run away with their lovers, and with unfaithful men and with teachers and business people who had known terrible failure and disappointment.  The message was always the same . . . hear from God.  The result was the same . . . God’s wisdom intervened and lives, marriages, careers, and most of all, souls were rescued.

Oh, the story of Mary and the egg!  Here it is …

She had been sent to a new mission site.  She determined to begin on the right foot and set aside a time for listening to God . . . she made a “Pact With God” concerning her devotion to Him . . . she had no Mother Superior or cloistered sisters with her, but she had a vocation.  She had God, our God, and confidence that He leads His sheep

Serious difficulties arose between Mary and her colleague; tensions mounted.  That can happen in dedicated lives.  Mary sought the Lord.  She followed the steps she had been taught.  God’s guidance to her was that she must take her colleague a fresh egg.  She considered this . . . and scratched it out of her notebook.

She went on about her day . . . she reasoned that this guidance could not be from God.

But . . . what do you suppose she saw in her chair when she went home for lunch?

Before we go on . . . what were the four steps?

1)     Get quiet . . . silent . . . before God and listen, and 2) repent of all sin, and 3) write down the guidance God gives, determining to obey, and 4) tell others what you have discovered.

When she came home for lunch, after a difficult morning, in her reading chair she saw … a chicken.  That had never happened before!

She shooed the chicken off the chair, and, surprise! … there was a a freshly laid egg!  Mary considered that this had to be the kind intervention of God so that she would continue with the counsel Dr. Scudder had given her.

Even so, Mary was embarrassed to take only ONE EGG to her coworker, so she sent the egg in care of the woman’s son.

That afternoon, the woman approached her at work.  “Oh, how could she have known!”  At breakfast the woman had cooked the last eggs in the house and divided them among the children and had herself gone without.  But the egg that Mary had sent!  It was the tastiest egg EVER!  And so kind and just at the right time!

Mary believed God.  She told her coworker what had happened, and everything started to change between them.  They became a powerful force for good and in the ministry together.

1) wait on the Lord

2) repent of all known sin

3) ask for God’s guidance and wait for it, determined to obey it

4) share this plan of listening to God with others.

VERY MONASTIC, don’t you think?

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Kaustahb, by permission, Wikimedia

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