TRANSFORMED

I have always loved butterflies. Their beauty and their grace of flight from one flower or object to another. I love to put bananas out in spring/summer for them to feed just outside my big window with the bird feeder and bath........only squirrels like to eat my bananas, and plunder my seed. I know they are God's creation also; an older friend, now deceased, used to call them rats with fancy tails.....sometimes I feel compassion for them but honestly a lot of the time I feel frustration that they take everything I put out for the wonder of the birds and the butterflies that grace my little spot created for much of my meditation and conversation with the Lord. Absorbing the beauty and the activity of the birds feeding, drinking and splashing FEED and FILL my creativity and enfolds my soul with words that sometimes I can be motivated to write and share with others of similar hearts. I spend much time conversing with God as I watch the beauty outside my window.......you can learn a lot about commonalities among the birds.....they share the bounty and the water with little conflict between them. For the most part there is no discrimination between them...........red, yellow, blue, black and white.......they all get along......such a lesson to us about commonalities versus differences. I love to hear their chatter, their 'twittering' and their songs to our Lord in Thanksgiving. I love butterflies because they have survived the struggle and confines of their cocoons prior to stretching their wings and taking flight........such beauty, I strive to be like a beautiful butterfly, stretching my wings, finding new ways to take flight, gracefully landing here and there, bringing cheer and hope to those places I light upon and take back off again. Thank you God for butterflies, for songbirds, and beauty all around us. I praise Him for sharing with us so abundantly and I hope I bring him praise in return.