One of the small rural towns nearby has a thunder egg weekend...venders congregate from near and far with their various wares...rock collectors are among the mix, with their displays of various rocks from all over, but buckets of thunder eggs are showcased.
One vender had a saw available to cut into these thunder eggs...you never know what you find inside these rounded rocks, but hopefully an array of crystals will be discovered or a pretty display of solid Quartz, making the thunder egg a thing of beauty instead of a round dirty looking rock that most of us would pass by on our walks...
"This article is about a type of rock.
A thunderegg (or thunder egg) is a nodule-like rock, similar to a filled geode, that is formed within rhyoliticvolcanic ash layers.[1] Thundereggs are rough spheres, most about the size of a baseball—though they can range from less than an inch to over a meter across. They usually contain centres of chalcedonywhich may have been fractured followed by deposition of agate, jasper or opal,[1] either uniquely or in combination. Also frequently encountered are quartz and gypsum crystals, as well as various other mineral growths and inclusions. Thundereggs usually look like ordinary rocks on the outside, but slicing them in half and polishing them may reveal intricate patterns and colours. A characteristic feature of thundereggs is that (like other agates) the individual beds they come from can vary in appearance, though they can maintain a certain specific identity within them.
Thunderegg is not synonymous with either geode or agate. A geode is a simple term for a rock with a hollow in it, often with crystal formation/growth. A thunderegg on the other hand is a specific geological structure. A thunderegg may be referred to as a geode if it has a hollow in it (see illustration of Gehlberg specimen), but not all geodes are thundereggs because there are many different ways for a hollow to form. Similarly, a thunderegg is just one of the forms that agate can assume." Wikipedia.
I picked a few fist sized thunder eggs to take to grandchildren to crack open to see what treasures we can find. (It is best, if you don't have a saw, to put them into a sock or something when hitting them with a hammer, for safety sake.)
It reminded me of the verse about the unseen..in a very loose sense!!!
These relatively ugly roundish stones are not usually something that would catch your eye to pick and treasure from their outward appearance...the treasure is in the inside if we take time to find it, cutting through the hard exterior...
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.
Isaiah 45:3
As we look at creation, the delicate flower petal, the intricate patterns on bugs, the procreation of life, the thunder egg, the timing of the sunshine, the tiniest bird....we see treasures all around...the Creator who wants to be known, who wants a relationship with us in the hidden places and the glorious world around us, in our very soul...our core...shedding our hard exterior to transform into His likeness...thank YOU...
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