What a amazing creature the Caterpillar is. A caterpillar is a creature that spends its life crawling around from place to place, living a rather dull and mundane life. It doesn't necessarily serve any major purpose but, there it is. Doing its quote un quote thing.
The Caterpillar is a rather simple looking insect, usually one color, slowly crawling around like a slinky with legs, Til one day; something inside it causes it to long for something different. The Caterpillar starts to feel a need to get to a place where it can feel safe and start its next journey in its life. So this little useless, boring caterpillar finds a place of comfort, usually in a tree or bush. It then starts to build a cocoon. Now in its cocoon it starts to change.
The change take time & doesn't happen over night. It is developing its self into something completely & utterly different.
Now the Time has come...........
One Day the cocoon opens up and low and behold, Something amazing happens. Something that doesn't even resemble the caterpillar breaks through the shell of the cocoon.
On this day a creature with endless possibilities is born. For this creature has wings and is no longer limits to the slow crawl on the ground. Gone is the boring rather dull look of its former self, now it is a sight to behold. It is full of amazing color and has grand wings to take it anywhere it wants to be. Case in point the now transformed butterfly is not even a fraction of its previous self.
The Human Connection to the Caterpillar and the Butterfly
When we look at ourselves we may find some similarities between the story of the butterfly. As humans we are often in the day to day life we live. Going from Point A to Point B, unfulfilled full of void and searching for our true calling in life.
One day we feel that pulling in our heart, that whisper in the back of our ear and we feel the urge to find out more about what these other people are finding in god. So we start to hear the word and feel the word. We wrap ourselves around it. Keeping it close to us. Cocooning ourselves in the word of god. While in this state we are being transformed . Not over night, but over time. We find our fleshly self and spiritual self being molded until that day comes and we.......Break form that cocoon and take our true form. Leaving our past self behind. Not resembling the Caterpillar of old. We are now full of spirit and life. We have our spiritually filled wings and we can accomplish great things.
I tell you if you have felt the pull in your heart to find out more about our lord, just take that step. That often uncomfortable and hard first step in molding your self. For god so Loves us more than we even know and he wants us in his life. Don't Spend your life stuck as a Caterpillar but become like the Butterfly , because eternity is waiting, so make that first step. God Bless.
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