The Butterfly Under The Perseverance With Hope!

 

                                                              The Butterfly Under The Perseverance With Hope / By Priscilla Lim

 

The Butterfly Under

The Perseverance

With Hope! 

 

/ By Priscilla

 

 

At one time,

when I read a book

titlled 'Giving hope

  to the flowers',

 

 

my heart was

so touched.

 

 

While I see butterflies

fluttering and flying freely,

 

 

I think how long they

had to endure and wait

 

 

to become a swallowtail

butterfly, or to be a

yellow butterfly.

 

 

It is said that a caterpillar

has to shed its skin

as many as six

or seven times

 

 

in order to become

a butterfly.

 

 

I am so impressed

to see the pupa

hanging on a

branch alone,

 

 

acclimatizing without

opposing nature.

 

 

This is because

the pupa, which patiently

endures loneliness alone

 

 

and waits for the day

to become a butterfly

to the end,

 

 

without leaving

its place as if obeying,

 

 

maybe somehow

 doesn't look different

from us believers l

iving today.

 

 

Just as a caterpillar

endures trials,

 

 

someday, we spiritual

caterpillars,

look ugly today,

 

 

but will take off the

skin of the present pupae

and transform into

new identities!

 

 

In my eyes, it seems

that the pupa hanging

from the tree branch

 

 

do not rebel against

the given environment,

 

 

do not go against

the providence of

nature, and endure

well.

 

 

Perhaps that's why

I think it doesn't seem

like something that

has nothing to do

with us. 

 

 

Maybe the pupa seems

just like the appearance

of us hoping for God

 

 

and dreaming of a ne

w transformation!

 

 

 

Now it is the time

to make a change

in my identity,

change in life,

 

 

 

and change myself first,

and because it is believed

that it is the time to

have a new life,

 

 

 

I am challenged

by the way the pupa

endures in its cradle,

 

 

 

as if dreaming with

 hope for the future.

 

 

 

This is why I want to

express the feeling of

waiting to become

 

 

 

a butterfly with the

abstract painting

I painted. 

 

 

 

It is believed that

the appearance of butterfly

is much like that of us

 living today as believers.

 

 

 

After receiving the Lord,

we must live by God's will,

not by our will anymore.

 

 

It is because I know

for sure that

 

 

in the Bible

'Zechariah'

 

 

 

"Not by might

nor by power,

but by my Spirit"

(Zec 4 : 6-9)

 

 

 

Only when our hearts

that wait for that time

become perfect without

opposing God,

 

 

but only obeying

God's sovereignty

just like everyting

in the universe,

 

 

we finally dream of

the future and have hope.

 

 

Then like a transformed

butterfly, and like

a beautiful butterfly

 

 

 

whose soul is freed

and flutters freely

 

 

and gives hope from

this flower to that flower,

 

 

we will be  beautiful

beings who will be

remembered

 

 

as God's people

in front of God and

in front of people. 

 

 

Even today,

without exception,

to the caterpillars

 

 

which manage to endure

with the hope of waiting,

 

 

dreaming of a beautiful

transformation that

 will come someday!

 

 

 

 

2013/06/01

 

 

/ By Priscilla