Metamorphosis

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over it became a butterfly.

proverb?


We can do all things...eventually.  A transformation process, however,  is required. 

Most of us, still  have our egos stuck to us like the fuzzy flesh of the caterpillar.  It may be considered cute by some, ugly by others  but it is not who we are. :)

As a species we are one big tent of creeping, crawling and very hungry little egos eating up everything in our paths.  If we were to go on like caterpillars...we would eat the planet alive, leaving nothing. We would also view the world from a very limited perspective...ground eye view.

In this ego form we can only think of our own needs and our own survival.  In an attempt to get and maintain the limited resources for our own hungry bellies  we compete and fight to get what we need to survive.

 ( I know one doesn't usually think of caterpillars with little machine guns strapped to their backs and little Rambo style bands around their heads but heck...for the purpose of this analogy, I am going to get you to  picture them that way.  They do not call some of the species..."Army worms" for nothing!)

That is the path we are on. 

If we do not wake up to realize who we are beneath these bodies we are in we will consume and destroy everything. 

If we do not seek some quiet branch on which to suspend all  that we thought we were so we can begin the change we will eat ourselves to oblivion. 

If we do not look around and see what is really going on, see that it is not just "all about me"; we will become extinct.

 If we do not cease our consuming, our doing, our taking, our owning, our fighting, our defending for precious moments of stillness ( which equates to about 20-40 days for this analogy :) ) we, as a species, will not make it to the next round.  And we will take a whole lot of other beings down with us when we die off!

We need to change! And soon!

We are not our egos.  We are so much more.  And we will only discover that after we undergo the necessary and sometimes painful process of metamorphosis . We have to be willing to wrap ourselves up away from the world we think is real and wake up to the world and being that truly exists within us
 
When we are simply willing to wake up...God (or however way you describe  that all knowing vital life force within us all) will take over helping us with the process. 

The constant hunger will cease. 
We will finally rest and all the heavy flesh we wore will be shed.

When the process is complete, and it does take time, we will  emerge into the  grand beings we were meant to be...that we were all along beneath our limited version of humanity.

We will be beautiful creatures that can transcend earthly limitation offering beauty and joy to a world that so desperately needs it. 

We will see the whole world clearly and realize just how beautiful and amazing it is.

We will know how we were meant to expand, to soar, to reach the heavens in this lifetime.

We will heal the earth and help to make it grow instead of destroying it.

We will also look at every caterpillar and instead of seeing a competitor for what's left...we will see the butterfly potential within them all. 

We will await the transformation of all, knowing that we will  create one amazing canopy of colour when we migrate together.

We all need to do this!

For the sake of the entire species we all need to make this change....but it begins with one little caterpillar at a time; one ego at a time. It begins with you and it begins with me.

Are you ready to become a butterfly?  I know I am.  :)

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:2, ESV)

All is well