Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Can they survive?

The caterpillars that we order every year for our biology lesson and Easter butterfly release at church have emerged from their chrysalis homes early. Waaaayyy early. They went from large pepper flake size to broken Cheeto size to bundled tightly in the homes to beautiful butterflies, like early last week. It is exciting. The preschool children who passed our offices have enjoyed watching the beautiful bugs dine on orange slices and flutter around their netted home. The down side to all this is that they only live about 10 days. So they emerged from their homes on March 30 and need to live intul April 20. Hmmm. I can even do that scary math problem. Easter morning is about life after death and the ultimate sacrifice that was made for us all. The butterflies on Easter morning may teach us about the circle of life and how God's timing is perdect. It may also provide several people with specimens to add to their dead bug collection...but let's hope not. Miracles happen every day. I just can't help hearing African drums and singing and baby Simba being thrust up into the air as "The Circle of Life" plays...and little butterlies laying in the bottom of the netty house they stay in. But we're going to hope for yet another Easter miracle. "...it's the cirrrrrcle...the cirrrcccle of liiiiffeee!". I'm an awful human being.


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