A Beautiful Butterfly
“And the one sitting on the throne said, ‘Look, I am making everything new!’ And then he said to me, ‘Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.’†- Revelation 21:5
There was a professor at Harvard University who arrived at his 5-year-old son’s class on the last day of school before Christmas to attend a school program. When his son saw him, the little boy grabbed the ceramic gift he made for his father and ran toward his dad.
As he ran, he tripped, and out of his hands flew the ceramic gift made of plaster, decorated with paint, and hardened in a kiln. The object wasn’t particularly ornate. It was hard to tell what it really was, but that wasn’t the point. It was something the little boy made from his heart for his dad.
And as the gift went airborne, it was as if time stood still as everyone watched with great horror as the ceramic gift landed on the floor of the classroom and shattered into pieces. It got so quiet in the classroom you could literally hear a mouse running on the floor. There was perfect silence as everyone involved considered the magnitude of the loss for the 5-year-old boy.
For him, there had never been a more expensive gift. He crumpled down on the floor next to his broken gift with a broken heart and just started crying. Both parents rushed to their son’s side trying to console him and did so until the crying ceased.
“Now,†said the mother, “let’s go home and see what can be made with what’s left.†And so, with mother’s magic and a glue gun, they put together from the broken pieces a multi-colored butterfly. That’s right. From the shattered ceramic pieces of an otherwise unrecognizable object, they made a beautiful multi-colored butterfly that the professor proudly placed on his desk for all who came into his office to see.
Amazingly, what the little boy discovered was that the artwork was actually much more beautiful after the pain of the incident than it had been before it was broken.
Is God making a beautiful butterfly in your life? What happened to you, that made you feel so hurt you didn’t know what to do? Could it be that God is going to do something even greater through your pain and brokenness?
There was a professor at Harvard University who arrived at his 5-year-old son’s class on the last day of school before Christmas to attend a school program. When his son saw him, the little boy grabbed the ceramic gift he made for his father and ran toward his dad.
As he ran, he tripped, and out of his hands flew the ceramic gift made of plaster, decorated with paint, and hardened in a kiln. The object wasn’t particularly ornate. It was hard to tell what it really was, but that wasn’t the point. It was something the little boy made from his heart for his dad.
And as the gift went airborne, it was as if time stood still as everyone watched with great horror as the ceramic gift landed on the floor of the classroom and shattered into pieces. It got so quiet in the classroom you could literally hear a mouse running on the floor. There was perfect silence as everyone involved considered the magnitude of the loss for the 5-year-old boy.
For him, there had never been a more expensive gift. He crumpled down on the floor next to his broken gift with a broken heart and just started crying. Both parents rushed to their son’s side trying to console him and did so until the crying ceased.
“Now,†said the mother, “let’s go home and see what can be made with what’s left.†And so, with mother’s magic and a glue gun, they put together from the broken pieces a multi-colored butterfly. That’s right. From the shattered ceramic pieces of an otherwise unrecognizable object, they made a beautiful multi-colored butterfly that the professor proudly placed on his desk for all who came into his office to see.
Amazingly, what the little boy discovered was that the artwork was actually much more beautiful after the pain of the incident than it had been before it was broken.
Is God making a beautiful butterfly in your life? What happened to you, that made you feel so hurt you didn’t know what to do? Could it be that God is going to do something even greater through your pain and brokenness?
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