but·ter·fly /ˈbʌtərˌflaɪ/ [buht-er-flahy] noun, plural -flies, verb, -flied, -fly·ing, adjective
1. any of numerous diurnal insects of the order Lepidoptera, characterized by clubbed antennae, a slender body, and large, broad, often conspicuously marked wings.
Seeing butterflies creates a sense of relief and joy for me. Just this morning as i was walking to work, i saw two yellow butterflies chasing each other around the flower bed. Immediately the scene reminded me of my childhood and how we used to catch butterflies in my grandfather's backyard. It was almost like a routine for us cousins during school holidays that we will go around the backyard to catch butterflies. The backyard was my late grandma's territory :-) It was filled with various kind of fruit trees, flower plants, leave plants and vegetables and so there was no lack of beautiful butterflies. We would run around the place with our either self-made butterfly net which is really half-past-six or a super old and worn-out net that miraculously appear each time we want to catch butterflies. Maybe my older cousins will tell me that they kept the net somewhere just that i was too young to know ANYTHING. hahaha... miraculously appear.. HAHAHA...
We would spend the whole day running around catching butterflies. We would then house the butterflies in a self-made aquarium look alike 'thingy'. Don't really know how to describe it, but we just find something to hold up the structure and use our old-school transparent book wrapper to cover it to prevent the butterflies from escaping. Talking about innovative and creativity, we were pretty good! On an average, we would catch tens and tens of butterflies in all sizes and colours. We will be so self entertained and excited about the catch(es) of the day. Those were the times... so fun and carefree.
Butterflies remind me of my childhood; butterflies remind me of my late grandma and her backyard; butterflies makes me pause a little while to reminisce about the past and give thanks for all that i ever had; butterflies make me joyful.
God has much bigger things in mind for us.He wants us to join his mighty project. That's a main reason we need thoroughgoing transformation. He wants people like us to become fit enough to follow Jesus inside "the infinite rule of God," becoming searchers for his kingdom, agents within it, witnesses to it, and models of it. We now have little kingdoms of our own, just as God intended. Depending on our age and level of responsibility, we have a small realm "where our choice determines what happens." God wants us "to mesh our kingdoms with the kingdoms of others," all inside his master kingdom, "which pervades and governs the whole of the physical universe."