Butterflies. If you know you know. And if you don’t, well here’s the story. It all started at summer camp. Camp Timberline to be exact. Again, if you know you know. One of my counselors was talking about the ways that God showed up in the simple parts of her life. He just gave her little reminders every day that He was always there. It was then that I realized, I wanted something like that, too. I must have been a 15 or 16 years old and definitely not solidified in my faith but I remember praying anyways. I prayed that God would give me something like that. Something I could see often and be reminded of Him. Boy, did he show up. Every day for about a month, I crossed paths in some way or another. Granted, it was summer time and I could have taken it as a coincidence. And who knows, maybe it was, but instead I chose to see it as God’s response to my prayer. So from then on, every time I saw a butterfly, I prayed. It was like God’s little reminder to me to be thanking him and requesting Him in every book of my life. Now, when I see them, they are not only a signal for prayer. I mean sure they are but most times there’s more, too. God uses butterflies to talk to me. To remind me to be grateful, to repent, to be still. That’s the biggest one lately, being still. I guess that’s where this whole story goes back to. Tonight I saw one. A butterfly. Or maybe it was a large and ornate moth. Either way it had swarmed around this light bulb. It was going crazy, thrashing itself around the room. Everyone else ran away from it and covered their ears. Jokingly I said “Guys it’s okay, I’m about to have a Snow White moment.” And I stuck out my hand and this crazy butterfly stopped everything and landed on the back of my palm. It just sat there, completely calm and completely still. I couldn’t help but laugh a little because God has been teaching me a lot lately about just being still and how he will come to me in that. It made me feel as if I was the butterfly, going crazy over this light but then God sticks his hand out and I am free to be completely calm and still. So, yes, God used me to tame nature, no big deal. It could be anything folks, just stick out your hand and wait for your Snow White moment.
