“Just when he thought the world had ended, the caterpillar became a butterfly.”
When I saw those words on a poster my reaction was simply, “Wow! I never thought of it that way.” The transformation from caterpillar to butterfly is truly miraculous. The caterpillar is slow-moving and stolid. The butterfly is beauty in flight. I have heard a butterfly described as a flower with wings.
Before it becomes a butterfly, a caterpillar goes through a growth stage that is called a chrysalis. In the chrysalis the fuzzy caterpillar changes into a butterfly that has intricate designs on its wings and is brightly-colored.
There are lessons for us in the transformation of the caterpillar into the butterfly. We plod along thinking we know where we are going, but often we are surprised. We may end up as something we never even knew we could become, just like the caterpillar never knew it would become a butterfly.
When it looks like our world is ending and we are in despair, we may be about to have wonderful things happen to us. Like the caterpillar in the chrysalis we have no way of knowing what is coming, but God knows. He knows what wonderful things He has planned for us.
Trusting God when it looks like our world is crashing around us is a sacred gift. I wish you countless sacred gifts.
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