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The Butterfly


The Butterfly ~ begins as an egg, delicately placed on a leaf. The egg then turns into the caterpillar that eats that green leaf. The caterpillar moves on to find more green leaves. This chubby little caterpillar then gets weary and begins to curl up and build a cocoon. After taking a long rest, which must’ve been exhausting, because, it emerges as a seemingly totally different creature…a butterfly.


As I ponder the wonder of the caterpillar/butterfly phenomena I am once again in awe of God and his dynamic creation. If we, mankind, are the masterpiece of His creation, and the butterfly is a simple part of creation, WOW – we are an amazing creation!!!

The butterfly phenomena can also demonstrate the stages we go through in life. We start out life with one focus, to grow. But then life gets a bit challenging…we pause, ponder, research, explore, and realize there is more to life than eating “green leaves”. When we dig into the Bible, and accept the Holy Spirit into our lives, we become a new creation. We sprout wings and are given a whole new perspective on life…a heavenly perspective. Before Christ, the Holy Spirit, enters our life, we consume ourselves with things of this world. Then, as we enter into a relationship with our Heavenly Father, we see that we are not of this world, but are passing through to another, eternal kingdom. The butterfly, and caterpillar, bring us hope and a beautiful picture of the creativity of the Creator - God.

The Butterfly season of Beautiful You, is the time we focus most on beauty that begins inside, with Christ at the core of our life, and spilling out into our physical aspects of life. Throughout the material we use various clip art of butterflies, to remind us of the unique creation and growing relationship we have with God. The goal is to focus on developing balance between maintaining our inner spiritual beauty with our physical beauty. True beauty begins from within, and is reflected in physical beauty. If either area of our being, spiritual or physical, is out of balance it will be evident in our lives, through the choices we make.




My desire is to post thoughts, over the next couple months, in regards to the balancing of spiritual and physical beauty. Building on true beauty, from the inside out! I invite you to "come along" and share your thoughts and feedback...

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