The thing to remember about the caterpillar is that it has no clue about what is happening. It is not unlike our experience when God sends us a dramatic change in our lives. Suddenly we find ourselves tightly bound in a cocoon with no where to go and no way to get out. Trapped, it would seem, in a prison of our own making. Then, in a time frame unknown to us, we emerge as a totally different and beautiful new creature with amazing new capabilities. The other thing to remember about the caterpillar is it has no capability to doubt its circumstances, so it just does it without hesitation and everything works out in a miraculous way. It would work the same way for us if we doubt less and act on faith more.
CLAIM YOUR WINGS
To me the butterfly teaches the most important lesson that we human beings ever have to learn. You all know his story. He lived what seemed to him a very long time as a worm—what we call the humble caterpillar. Now the life of a caterpillar could be taken as the very type and symbol of restriction. He lives on a green leaf in the forest, and that is about all he knows.
Then one day the little caterpillar finds certain strange stirrings going on within himself. The old green leaf, for some reason, no longer seems sufficient. He becomes moody and discontented, but—and this is the vital point—it is a divine discontent. He feels the need for a bigger, finer, and more interesting life. His instinct tells him that where there is true desire there must be fulfillment.
And so the wonderful thing happens: the butterfly emerges beautiful, graceful, now endowed with wings, and instead of crawling about on a restricted leaf, he soars above the trees, above the forest itself—free, unrestricted, his own True Self.
…Eye hath not seen, nor heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him (1 Corinthians 2:9).
Good Morning Garden 
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