. . butterflies . .

this has been something i've been thinking about for quite a long while now.. i'm not sure why but i've always been drawn to butterflies. they are beautiful. they can fly. they are free. there is just something that captures a part of my heart when one flutters through my gaze.. hmm i wish i had words to describe what comes over me. lets just say its like a peice of my heart floating through the air for the whole world to see...
so as i have been pondering butterflies and what is so special about them God is begining to reveal something to me in a perspective i haven't looked through before (i love when he does that to me hmmm) so butterflies have 4 different stages of life. being birthed the egg. caterpillar stage. cacoon stage. and then comes the butterfly. i've been realizing how much my life is like a butterfly's different stages that it has to go through. but i don't think all these transformations just happen once in our lives. i think at different times during your life you achieve the butterfly stage but then you start over to be birthed into something new. so many examples come to mind.
as a baby when your trying to explore new things and learning different things and by the end of it you finally take your first steps and you being to "fly" riding your bike. how many times had you tried and tried and after much transformation you finally learn to ride it. a friendship could be considered to go through the same process. your highschool years. and now 24.7 is the stage of life i'm in right now. i'm still trying to figure out which stage i'm at exactly. i feel like i could be beinging to come out of my shell and hatch into a caterpillar. i know the cacoon and wings still need to grow but i'm ok with the stage of life i'm in right now as long as i keep growing and keep learning. slowly and surely as a caterpillar scooches along i will do the same things. as much as i want to jump and start to fly right now i know i wouldn't be ready for that stage yet. God has me right where he wants me for this part of my life. and i know as soon as i transform into this butterfly a new stage of life will come at me and i'll have to learn all over again but i will do this for as long as i live. start new things and let God transform me into the beautiful creation he intended me to be. and each time i'll gain more of his compasion and love and knowledge and wisdom and all he has for me. i am a butterfly of God and i will follow wherever he may lead me.
well that is what God has taught me through butterflies. something that captures my heart and makes me think of so many things i've gone through and so much to come.

. . butterflies . .