The Butterfly

Today I was contemplating 2 Corinthians 13:11, "Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you." I thought about the word perfect and how it means to be complete. Then a butterfly came to mind. I thought about how a butterfly begins as a caterpillar and goes thru a pupa stage which can last from a couple of days to over a year. I read about the word: chrysalis. It is the scientists word for the pupa stage and it comes form the Greek word chrysos, which means gold.

Just as the caterpillar goes through stages to become a butterfly so we go through stages. The caterpillar was not created just to be a caterpillar. It was created to change and become a beautiful butterfly. So were we created to become something of great worth if we rely on our Heavenly Father. 1 John 3:2, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that when he shll appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."

The Butterfly

The caterpillar begins lowly
And grows very slowly.
But he is not designed to stay
In that humble lowly way.

God meant for him to change
And even his body rearrange,
To go from stage to stage
And a new form to engage.

He weaves a shell so bold,
A pupa the color of gold.
It may seem like the end
But glory is around the bend.

In a few days to a year
His destiny becomes clear.
A butterfly he was meant to be
Just like you and me.

We too must go thru a change
And our beings rearrange.
So we truly may become
Like the Father and the Son.

24 Mar 2009 Suzanne Halliday