What does the word butterfly mean? Dictionary.com says

butterfly

   [buht-er-flahy] Show IPA noun, plural but·ter·flies, verb, but·ter·flied, but·ter·fly·ing, adjective

noun

1.

any of numerous diurnal insects of the order Lepidoptera, characterized by clubbed antennae, a slender body, and large, broad, often conspicuously marked wings.

 

What it doesn't say is that is comes from a caterpillar that makes a cocoon and when it hatches its now a butterfly.

 

I know you are reading this wondering what I am going to talk about.  I will get there just bear with me :)

 

I went to retreat this weekend.  At this retreat I hear God speak very clearly to me.  That this weekend was my weekend as a butterfly.  I started out as a small ugly caterpillar and when I awoke from my slumber in the desert I was a beautiful butterfly. After I awoke any time I was questioning what I was dealing with a butterfly would come into my sight. 

A butterfly is thought to be the sign of a new beginning.   I feel I have a new beginning now.  As place that will take me deeper in my spiritual life than I have ever been before.

 

I am ready to spread my new wings and fly.  I cant wait to see what the Lord has planned for me. Is it a new relationship with my family/my friends? Is it a new relationship with anyone? Or is it just a new loving relationship with God? While I do think its that I am pretty sure that is both of these things. 

I just know that I will sit with my mouth closed, my ears opened, and my heart opened to receive what he has to tell me.

How about you? Are you ready to take the next BIG step in your life??

I know I am ready and this past retreat has taken me to a deeper level than ANY other retreat I have gone on.  This was not ACTS, this was not Highland Lakes.  This was a Pathway.   A pathway that He has had planned for me before I was born. I just haven't wanted to listen in the quietness of my heart to hear until now.

 

Lord, make me what you want me to be.  Let your Love shine through me to others so they may see you and your love in me. Help me be a better daughter, sister, wife, mother and friend.  Help me remember that I will be taken take of, that I can ask for help, and that there is no other place I need to be than where I am right now! Amen...