I have loved butterflies since high school. For a long time my love for them was about how beautiful they were and the freedom they represented. They also held memories of my Granny. My love of butterflies came from her.
My love of them changed several years ago when the campus Pastor of the college I was attending said something so profound one day in chapel.
I immediately wrote the quote down and promptly forgot about it. In reality I just did not want to think about that.
It's odd enough that a caterpillar, which is not the loveliest of creatures, becomes something so beautiful. To think that while the caterpillar transforms from something less than beautiful to a gorgeous butterfly it has a time of suffering.
If you read about the transformation you learn that the caterpillar slowly becomes the chrysalis. Once the chrysalis is formed it can take anywhere from 2 weeks to months to transform into a butterfly.
The more I thought about the quote and the transformation the more I realized how much like a butterfly I am. I spent part of my life as a caterpillar, not particularly beautiful and just plodding along. Along the way Christ found me. He was not content with leaving me as a caterpillar. So a chrysalis I became. I cannot help but think this is where I still am at times. He is working in me. He is transforming me from the inside out. It takes time. It hurts. It's hard.
And yet I keep thinking about the end result. The Butterfly.
The beauty. The freedom.
Only from Him can those things come.
And I cannot wait to break out of my chrysalis and show all just how beautiful I am....because of Him.
