T. Wieland Allen
Heavenly blessings manifest themselves in many different ways. Several years ago My husband Steve was at MD Anderson Hospital being treated for a rare form of cancer. He was in his second year of chemotherapy and while waiting for him to have some tests I visited a bookstore and saw a ledger that I felt would be perfect for him in which he could write his experiences about his treatments. The title on the front of the ledger was "Just When the Caterpillar Thought Life was Over, It Became A Butterfly." It was perfect for the situation.
I bought the ledger and gave it to my husband. The name on the front was meaningful to him. Even though the ledger only had one entry in it at the time of his death, because my husband Steve was not a person who liked to read or write things, the importance of the name on the front of the ledger still lingers on. Soon after I gave the ledger to him, a friend emailed to us a cartoon of a butterfly flying low while attempting to pull its heavy cocoon up some stone steps. The butterfly was a blue morpho butterfly. That particular butterfly with the name "morpho" was significant because Steve was struggling at the time with chemotherapy and he later changed from being a spiritual man in a physical body into a spirit in a new heavenly body. He morphed from being merely a physical man into being a spirit in the presence of God in heaven.
The color of that particular butterfly became a symbol of my husband Steve after his body died and his spirit, the real Steve, went to heaven. So you can see why the reason the blue morpho butterfly means so much to me, because Steve had actually morphed from a physical body into a spiritual body after getting rid of that old diseased body, which was represented by the cocoon in the cartoon. There have been several miraculous instances where pictures of blue morpho butterflies have appeared out of nowhere on things as encouragement to members of my family and to me. They were merely pictures, not a live butterfly.
Several months later my granddaughter Lindsey told me that she, her boyfriend Major and Major's brother Kiefer were at the boys' grandpa's house in another city and while they were around the pool a blue butterfly landed on Kiefer's arm and stayed there. It walked up and down his arm. The butterfly was so sedate that Linz was easily able to get a great picture of it. The blue butterfly stayed on Kiefer's arm a long time. Lindsey put her hand close to Kiefer's arm and the butterfly walked right onto her hand and stayed there a few minutes, then flew back to Kiefer's arm, staying there a few minutes flittering its wings as if to say, "Notice me. I'm sent to give you faith." Lindsey texted to me a picture of the blue butterfly. Yes, it was not just a blue butterfly, it was a blue morpho butterfly, a symbol to me that good supernatural changes are on the way.
Lindsey said that they could see the underside of its wings and they were orange and green. It was definitely a supernatural experience for them. It was God and her Grandpa Steve telling her and Major that Kiefer's future is going to be okay. Kiefer is high on the autism spectrum and as an 18 year old he is having normal problems just like other 18 year old guys, but he also has the additional problems of having some limitations from being on the autism spectrum. His hopes and their hopes for his future is that he will be able to live independently. Decisions need to be made that will enable him to fulfill his dream of living independently, able to support himself, live alone and have a normal life with some supervision.
Linz said that the blue morpho butterfly stayed around them a long time that day, flying around their heads and then landing on either Kiefer or Lindsey's shoulders for a while that afternoon. There did not seem to be any sign that the blue morpho wanted to be anywhere else. There is no doubt to me that the event was sent to encourage all three of them. Major has guardianship of Kiefer so he is faced with a lot of decisions for both of their futures.
Kiefer is a very spiritual young man. He loves God and is a very loving person, even to people who bully him because of his limitations. Some of his writings have wisdom and insights well beyond his years and abilities. He has that extra faith and sensitivity that enables him to perceive spiritual things that other people his age and many of his elders don't perceive or understand.
God told us to be on the watch to recognize when we are entertaining angels, that they are always around us even though we are not aware of them. There is no doubt in my mind that in both instances, the blue morpho butterfly on my red periwinkles and also the blue morpho butterfly that visited Lindsey, Major and Kiefer, that they were sent from heaven to be an encouragement to us. That is what the events produced, faith and encouragement when both were needed.
Both supernatural events are worthy of our praising God for sending messengers from heaven to bring good news to us and give us peace.
That's what God does, always sends peace and love to us. He uses what is important to us so that we recognize His presence.
We have a lot of faith now for Kiefer's future. God's sending the special butterfly did what it was sent to do, give faith and encouragement to all of us.
Both supernatural events resulted in My giving thanks and praise to God, who always meets our needs. He knows our unique and special needs and He supplies what we need, even unusual butterflies to hang around until we recognize their presence as a supernatural visitation from heaven sent from a loving God to encourage us that He loves us and will meet our needs. How fortunate we are to have eyes to recognize the special gifts. Kiefer has always had had eyes to perceive and ears to understand spiritual things. That's why he is so blessed. He writes about them and spreads the good news.
