Butterflies and ladybugs…

 Butterflies and ladybugs….

In 2009, I purchased a kit to raise ladybugs…my husband and I watched each day as those tiny little bugs changed and eventually changed into the ladybugs we see on our plants and flowers…

We then took the container on a trip to the foothills of California on the road leading to the giant Sequoia redwoods where we met with family for a family reunion instigated by my father…my oldest grandchildren met us and we released those ladybugs in the bushes near our motel rooms…

A few years later, I needed a diversion, so I got a butterfly kit to watch in wonder as the little caterpillars grew and changed daily in their lifecycle to finally emerge from their chrysalis to butterflies and fly away…

So remembering those times of wonder, I recently purchased another butterfly kit to watch the process again…everyday there is change and growth…a guide book comes with each kit so I can follow along with the change…

it is still marvelous to watch the miracle of life and change…

With this season of Easter, spring, new life in nature, it is fitting  to ponder the wonder of the resurrection of Christ….each year we have the reminder and rememberance of what Christ did on the cross for each and every person across the eons of time…there was a plan, there was a purpose…we have the Guide in the Word, we have the “diary” of the events…we see the agony of the changes in people, we see the agony of Christ….but we see the joy, the forgiveness…the victory of life over death…the love given…demonstrated…nothing will ever compare…

Thank YOU….

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:16-17

Matthew 26,27

And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:8-11

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

Colossians 1:15-20