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).
We, like the butterfly, were created to be more than that which we manifest by our physical birth. Like the butterfly, we are born as one thing and must undergo a metamorphosis in order to become that which we were created to become. Our rebirth however is spiritual rather than material. Yet, we too emerge from the change as different creatures.
Let each us us use the experiences of 2012 to transform ourselves in 2013. May we each spread our wings in the coming year and become the beautiful creature we were meant to become so that we may we each fly to our greatest heights.
Airborne,
Z gardener
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