Thursday, August 4, 2011
Wondering about Butterflies Today...?
I was noticing butterflies yesterday... it seems to me that God made flowers to bloom with grace and beauty where they are planted. They are rooted in the earth and have a specific locality in which they are to exist and be what He created them to be. Birds have flight and soar above us on the winds. They cause us to lift our eyes from the earth and our spirits to lift... so what about butterflies? They are flowers in flight... they don't soar but whirl and spin and dip and dive.... they alight on plants that aren't food... do they explore the veins of the oak leaf and trace its varied pathways? What are their thoughts as they wander the space between earth and sky? They seem to be content to be moving about dancing together in such inefficient patterns of flight... Butterflies make me stop and wonder about how I am made and what might there be to enjoy in my time between the earth and the sky....
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I can't recall whether I ever read this when you first posted it, Michelle. I feel certain I would have remembered. Such beauty in your words, friend. That description of butterflies as "flowers in flights," those wonderings of what they do, what they think, their inefficiency, and ultimately that pondering of who you are as well. Would love another sit-down conversation with you in the not-too-distant future. Don't know if the "Embodying" event in is in the cards for you this year, but hope at least to be passing through your territory in the next month or so :)
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