Last weekend found us wandering in awe around the Day Butterfly Center at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia. The glass conservatory that always remains a balmy temp because of the flora + fauna was an inviting respite from the January cold. There was fluttering of wings everywhere you looked! It wasn't our 1st or even 2nd visit, but it always remains special & new to me. There's just something about butterflies...
Maybe it's that they illustrate so beautifully transformation - specifically the transformation that takes place when a sinner finds the Savior, & the ordinary gives way to the magnificent, the ugliness of sin to the beauty of a new soul made whole in Jesus. As it says in 2 Corinthians 5:17,
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!"
That verse has always reminded me of butterflies. The somewhat grubby, belly crawling caterpillar, seemingly ho-hum & nothing extraordinary, builds a chrysalis & disappears inside for an appointed time {I wonder if it knows what is going to happen next}... Eventually, it breaks forth as something wholly different & new & full of beauty & free to fly. That's like you & me with Jesus.
Dan & I had the unique blessing of viewing the "birth" of a butterfly as it emerged from its cocoon on our last trip to Callaway & I will never forget it & the symbolism it so beautifully portrayed. When God made butterflies, I think He just might have been thinking of you & me + Jesus.
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