No audio today - should have it all back up and running on Thursday.
This month, the time immediately following the
Resurrection, we’ll declare it the Butterfly season. Why Butterflies?
First, they are symbols of tremendous change in a short time frame. A butterfly’s life spans the course of
about a month, which means there’s little time to be idle. There is, of course, also the
“butterfly effect” where it’s believed if one flaps its wing, a hurricane could
be created. Let us be inspired to
live a new life this month, during the Butterfly Season.
There is a well-known story of a man watching a butterfly
emerging from its cocoon. It struggled to move through a small hole, the
butterfly itself too large to fit.
After after a while, the butterfly stopped moving, seeming frustrated
and exhausted. The man, knowing
the potential of the butterfly, decided to cut the cocoon to release it from
its entrapment. However, the body was small and the wings crumpled. The man
waited for the butterfly to fly away, but it was not able to for its wings
never became strong enough to fly.
This week starts the emergence process. It would seem that after laying a
strong foundation, eating the right foods to get strong and laying in wait that
the coming out would be easy. It is actually the most trying part of the
journey. This is the point where
we have to allow our past to groom us all the while struggling to let it
go. “How can we just let go of
something that did so much for us?” we ask ourselves. The truth is that it only
served us well in that stage of our season. Just like our bodies that grow and change with the times, we
are never to remain mentally or emotionally in the same place.
In the days after the Resurrection, the Disciples often did not really understand their journey until they were faced with situations that were familiar to them. Peter and Paul speak openly in their letters and have stories recounted of how they heal, blessed, prayed over and performed miracles on those they met after. Their experiences up to that point made it so that they could understand how, through Jesus Christ, do anything. Everything we have ever learned prepares us to appreciate our wings. We will remember where we came from, but know that we have press through to move higher.
In the days after the Resurrection, the Disciples often did not really understand their journey until they were faced with situations that were familiar to them. Peter and Paul speak openly in their letters and have stories recounted of how they heal, blessed, prayed over and performed miracles on those they met after. Their experiences up to that point made it so that they could understand how, through Jesus Christ, do anything. Everything we have ever learned prepares us to appreciate our wings. We will remember where we came from, but know that we have press through to move higher.
Consider this week wiggling, slowly, from what shaped you
and moving to the new outlook your call has for you.
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