She's a Lovely Little Lady
Looking for a room......
Bullfrogs Butterflies& http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4KVwX44Z9A
My love for Butterflies all started with that song.
Little did I know.........................
God was really placing a life changing lesson in my possession.
I grabbed on to it
It's fascinating
Life can be compared to that of a caterpillar
strength, endurance and growth happening at too rapid of a pace
stillness, quiet and sleep lasting just long enough to repeat
someday
even though by looking ... you can not see it
There are wings
Wings
But, before I jump too far ahead.
Take a look at today.
My lovely little lady found a spot to make her room.
I actually thought the caterpillar had died.
Two entire days it was still
(which is longer than usual)
Just when I was about to give up.
Because patients is not a virtue that comes easily to me
The caterpillar began to teach me a lesson:
With what shall I come before the Lord
and bow down before the exalted God? Micah 6: 6
The pressure began to mount
pullsing.
resistance.
And before the old self could be shed
The caterpillar raised it's body as if begging
A final plea.
Have Mercy on Me of Lord
Have Mercy on Me
Have Mercy
Have Mercy
Mercy Mercy Mercy
As the surge of energy lessened.
The head began to bow humbly
And just as had Jesus asked..............
"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done." Luke 22:42
I imagined the caterpillar doing the same.
But, maybe God's Mercy to the caterpillar is in the fight
the resistance
the pulising into a New Life.
How else do we recognize a new life?
Labor.
Death
If it was easy...............
If it was easy...............
Would we know God's Grace
The release.
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward. Isaiah 58:8
Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of Thy love.
Take my will, and make it Thine; it shall be no longer mine.
it shall be no longer mine
it shall be no longer mine
If I were a caterpillar I would have been satisfied by this point.
The old self is gone.
But I am not a caterpillar.
And God is God.
The caterpillar thrust, spins, thrashes.
Not until it is gone.
But until it is GONE.
Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.
Mark 10:39
The chrysalis stands
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on
to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6
and I wait
waiting for insight into what is happening inside.