A beautiful butterfly

This little piece was written on 3/16-17 of 2012...

A butterfly is a beautiful being. It begins as a caterpillar... so full of hope and promise. Then, something happens...this little caterpillar knows it has to change. It is fearful, but it accepts the fact that it has to go through this. It begins to cover itself, weaving a cacoon around it's small, fragile body. It is protected now. Its is dormant and seemingly unfruitful.  It begins to lose hope, wondering if it will ever break free and wake up. What will happen? What this precious creature can't see is that by going through this struggle, it is preparing itself to live, truly live, and take flight.
Finally...
Just when this little chrysalis begins to lose hope, a sliver of light breaks through. At last. A hope.
Something to hold on to! Something to rejoice in! Something to FOLLOW.
This soon-to-be beauty begins to wrestle with the layering of the old creature; slothing off a little at a time... each move revealing hope and a promise for light and beauty.
Suddenly...
A butterfly emerges. A new creation! Fresh to the world. Such a graceful being. More beautiful than ever before..

"For God so loved the world that he gave His only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts in Him may have eternal life, instead of being utterly destroyed.

For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but rather so that through Him,
the world might be saved."                                                    

-John 3:16-17