Thursday, May 18, 2006
i feel like hugging you now. "you're right, I like it alot."
Karen Kingsbury's
"Ocean Apart"second chances.Butterflies were God's bestest artwork.
His teacher told him once that artwork was when little boys coloured inside the lines. God definitely coloured inside the lines with butterflies. Pretty soon the butterfly families would become a butterfly village all bouncing and lifting and falling over him and his mommy.
She would lean close to his ear and whisper:
" Know what I love about butterflies, Max?""What?""They prove that God gives second chances.""Why?" Max knew the answer, but he liked to hear her say the words.
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Because a butterfly spends most of its life as a caterpillar, scooting along on the ground, barely getting by. When a caterpillar sees a butterfly he thinks how wonderful it would be to fly.""And then one day he gets tired.""Very tired. He builds a little room, curls up inside, and takes a nap. Deep in his heart he wonders if maybe that's all. Maybe life is over.""But one day..." Max always smiled here, because this was his favouritest part of the story.
"One day the caterpillr wakes up, and God has done an amazing thing. The caterpillar shakes off the little room and feels something on his back. This time he goes a bit down the tree branch he doesn't scoot like before.""He flies!" Max would look back at the butterflies.
"That's right." His mommy's voice would get sort of scratchy at this part of the story.
"And one day, Max, you and I aren't going to scoot anymore, either. Because God loves us even more than He loves the butterflies.""Right.""So butterflies make us remember, don't they, Max?""Yep.""That life is good no matter what. Because just like caterpilar, the best days are ahead of us, and then...""And then we'll have wings just like the butterflies."
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