Sarah and her friend Miriam in their Sunday School class this morning.
David’s caterpillars decided to emerge this weekend. What excitement! We put a little dish of sugar water in the netting this morning on our way to church. When we got home we decided to release the butterfly into the great outdoors. David kept telling us we had to find flowers. I tried not to wonder at his eyes since there were flowering bushes all over. Tim handled the great butterfly migration.
The butterfly fell, fluttered its wings and then gently flew off. I couldn’t help but think of us and how much we resemble a butterfly in our Christian walk. We start off as slow, plodding creatures, barely able to see the world around us. We find ourselves wrapped in this strange cocoon as Christ transforms us. It feels confining and different and even painful at times. Then, oh, then, we emerge as new beings. Able to fly and soar and see everything in a new and glorious light. Now we are beautiful.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 2 Corinthians 5:17
Kathy
You’re so eloquent! Looks like a nice day for releasing a butteryfly! Flowers in the background are BEAUTIFUL
YAY! Your butterflies are in the world! Ours are too, a bit sad to see them go, but they were so tired of being in Adam’s room….don’t ask me how I know.
What amazing transformations God works in us over time. He is so patient.
Did the butterflies find the flowers?
Jen, I didn’t include in our story that one of the butterflies didn’t make it. I guess that also has spiritual applications (sort of the seeds and the sower type story). I don’t know what happened. When we left for church it hadn’t come out of it’s cocoon. When we got home it had fallen and seemed squished between the cup of sugar water and the netting. Perhaps it fell down and got stuck. Either way, we let it go into the wild as well (and it WAS moving, contrary to what the children thought). There’s always a chance it survived but we didn’t spend much dwelling on its possibilities. Ha!
Thanks for writing! I am positive the butterfly found his way to the flowers.
Congrats on the butterfly release. e did this project once too and it was great fun to watch the caterillar change.
WOW – I need to do something like this….I really must begin to think past bird feeders. LOL
Great post, Kathy! We try and raise butterflies every fall as we have lots of Monarchs around our area. It is such a wonderful experience.
I so enjoy your wonderful way of writing.
Debbie – how cool! You all do this every year? Where do you get them? What do you put them in? It was very fun. I’d love to do it again. I think I was more excited about it than the children. Ha!
De’Etta – I never would have done this if it hadn’t been for the co-op. David took a Bugs class and the teacher organized it all (complete with containers for the caterpillars and butterfly/net homes). My parents and inlaws are both VERY avid bird watchers. I need to put up our bird feeder and open that world up for the children.
Anna has some moths in her garage- they are supposed to winter there (in cocoons) and come out in the spring. She checks on them when she gets into her car. FUN.
The flowers are gorgeous in your pics. AK
Kathy,
I notice you mentioned that you wouldn’t have done this without the co-op. I’m the same way! We’ve done more hands on stuff this year than we’ve ever done before thanks to our co-op.