MINISTRY OF THE BLUE MORPHO BUTTERFLY
What gives you faith? What boosts your faith? We have found out that there are various ways for our faith to become boosted to a high level. With certain situations in life, we need jet fuel boosts of faith. With other situations we merely need lighter fluid boosts of faith.
During my husband's second battle with cancer, which had been treated and was temporarily in remission, at the appearance of new tumors on the CT scans we became in need of jet fuel boosts of faith. God provides them every time. We never suspected that a butterfly would be a vehicle that God sent to catapult us up to a higher level of faith.
I write three blogs and one is called Dear Ones, in which I write some encouraging messages from God every morning. One of the writings related to God telling us that we don't need to carry burdens, that He is the burden bearer for us. That writing spoke to me and to others in a mighty way, but when my friend Diane in Wisconsin added a wonderful picture to the writing on the blog it really became a visual lesson from God.
The picture is of a blue butterfly who has a huge rock attached to it by a long rope, and the butterfly is trying to pull the rock up a flight of stairs. That was a brilliant visual representation to me of the lesson in the writing.
I printed off the writing, along with the picture, to take to the Bible Study group that I've taught for over 25 years. One of the ladies was unable to attend the meeting that day, so the hostess sent her, via another lady, a piece of special pie that she had served that day. As an afterthought she sent the printout of the butterfly with the rock and the writing from God.
At the Bible study meeting the following week, the recipient of the pie and the printout told about the butterfly on the handout, that it was a Blue Morpho Butterfly, a special butterfly found only in another county. She told us that there is a legend that anyone who catches the Blue Morpho and then releases it, that the butterfly will take the person's deepest wishes to the Great Spirit who will grant the desire.
That story and legend piqued my interest, so later I researched the Blue Morpho butterfly on the internet. I learned in the information that there is a movie about that legend. The movie is based upon a book, a true story of a 10 year old boy who had inoperable brain cancer. He only had three to six months to live. The boy had a butterfly collection and wanted to have the rare Blue Morpho butterfly for his collection. The story is that somehow the boy's mother contacted a famous scientist and convinced him to take the boy to find a Blue Morpho butterfly.
The movie is about the search for the elusive butterfly, but a woman hears of the boy's desire and catches a Blue Morpho and gives it to the ailing boy. The boy released the Blue Morpho instead of adding it to his collection. The true story ends with the boy hearing the news from his doctors that the brain cancer has disappeared.
The word morpho means to change in form or sutstance.
That jet fuel faith booster spoke volumes to my husband and me. We know the power of God and we know the power of faith.
The miracle of our story is that Diane in Wisconsin added the picture of the Blue Morpho butterfly to my blog writing that related to letting God carry our burdens, then God used another friend and her generosity in sending the pie and the printout to another friend who eventually told us about the Blue Morpho butterfly and its importance relating to my husband's illness.
The true Blue Morpho Butterfly story was a powerful reminder to us of God's ability to heal, but the convoluted way that God got the testimony of the healing of the little boy to us was the real faith booster. It provided the jet fuel faith that we needed to give the burden to God and let him provide the avenue of healing for my husband.
I don't know how God does it, but he comes through every time with His comfort, His wisdom and His jet fuel faith boosters.
A bonus to the printout of the butterfly trying to pull the rock up the stairs is that the shadow of the wings of the butterfly on the wall in the picture form a perfect heart, signifying God's love for us.
Is that a personal love letter from God or not? I know it is, and God's signature is the heart shaped shadow on the wall.
What gives you faith? What boosts your faith? We have found out that there are various ways for our faith to become boosted to a high level. With certain situations in life, we need jet fuel boosts of faith. With other situations we merely need lighter fluid boosts of faith.
During my husband's second battle with cancer, which had been treated and was temporarily in remission, at the appearance of new tumors on the CT scans we became in need of jet fuel boosts of faith. God provides them every time. We never suspected that a butterfly would be a vehicle that God sent to catapult us up to a higher level of faith.
I write three blogs and one is called Dear Ones, in which I write some encouraging messages from God every morning. One of the writings related to God telling us that we don't need to carry burdens, that He is the burden bearer for us. That writing spoke to me and to others in a mighty way, but when my friend Diane in Wisconsin added a wonderful picture to the writing on the blog it really became a visual lesson from God.
The picture is of a blue butterfly who has a huge rock attached to it by a long rope, and the butterfly is trying to pull the rock up a flight of stairs. That was a brilliant visual representation to me of the lesson in the writing.
I printed off the writing, along with the picture, to take to the Bible Study group that I've taught for over 25 years. One of the ladies was unable to attend the meeting that day, so the hostess sent her, via another lady, a piece of special pie that she had served that day. As an afterthought she sent the printout of the butterfly with the rock and the writing from God.
At the Bible study meeting the following week, the recipient of the pie and the printout told about the butterfly on the handout, that it was a Blue Morpho Butterfly, a special butterfly found only in another county. She told us that there is a legend that anyone who catches the Blue Morpho and then releases it, that the butterfly will take the person's deepest wishes to the Great Spirit who will grant the desire.
That story and legend piqued my interest, so later I researched the Blue Morpho butterfly on the internet. I learned in the information that there is a movie about that legend. The movie is based upon a book, a true story of a 10 year old boy who had inoperable brain cancer. He only had three to six months to live. The boy had a butterfly collection and wanted to have the rare Blue Morpho butterfly for his collection. The story is that somehow the boy's mother contacted a famous scientist and convinced him to take the boy to find a Blue Morpho butterfly.
The movie is about the search for the elusive butterfly, but a woman hears of the boy's desire and catches a Blue Morpho and gives it to the ailing boy. The boy released the Blue Morpho instead of adding it to his collection. The true story ends with the boy hearing the news from his doctors that the brain cancer has disappeared.
The word morpho means to change in form or sutstance.
That jet fuel faith booster spoke volumes to my husband and me. We know the power of God and we know the power of faith.
The miracle of our story is that Diane in Wisconsin added the picture of the Blue Morpho butterfly to my blog writing that related to letting God carry our burdens, then God used another friend and her generosity in sending the pie and the printout to another friend who eventually told us about the Blue Morpho butterfly and its importance relating to my husband's illness.
The true Blue Morpho Butterfly story was a powerful reminder to us of God's ability to heal, but the convoluted way that God got the testimony of the healing of the little boy to us was the real faith booster. It provided the jet fuel faith that we needed to give the burden to God and let him provide the avenue of healing for my husband.
I don't know how God does it, but he comes through every time with His comfort, His wisdom and His jet fuel faith boosters.
A bonus to the printout of the butterfly trying to pull the rock up the stairs is that the shadow of the wings of the butterfly on the wall in the picture form a perfect heart, signifying God's love for us.
Is that a personal love letter from God or not? I know it is, and God's signature is the heart shaped shadow on the wall.
photo from: Sherryl Frauenglass A Woman's True Voice
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