From Caterpillar to Butterfly

BUTTERFLIES are caterpillars that have been transformed. Caterpillars are ugly, slimy, and slow. I don’t find much redeeming value in caterpillars. Most of the time, I find myself stepping on them.

But once the caterpillar converts to a butterfly, all of a sudden, something new is born. Something old and ugly, something that was rejected, something that deserved to be stepped on, now begins to change. The process of change is a little uncomfortable and a little inconvenient. For a while, it looks like things are getting worse rather than better.

That’s because something is changing on the inside. After the cocooning process is over, and the shell flips open, all of a sudden the thing that used to be grounded can now fly.

The thing that used to be a parasite now pollinates. Something beautiful has come out of something that was ugly. The seed was already there for it, but it just had to wait for development.

Now, a butterfly is not a fixed up caterpillar. A butterfly is a totally new creature that was birthed out of a caterpillar. But it’s not a caterpillar.

It is a brand spanking new being.