Flutter-By's......

I started reading a book today.  One I got at the thrift store for 1.75!! (yessssssss)
Its called, "God Works the Night Shift" (It's an oldy)

I got this book, along with some other thrift treasures for under $5.00... Just sayin!

I'm going to share a portion that caught my attention.

I've been told that a group of researchers once studied one hundred caterpillers which were about to fight their way free from chrysalis (or the cacoon.)  Instead of letting them struggle, however, the observers gently cut them out and released them.
Then they set the insects on a table to get them to fly.  But none of them could.  Not one.

The little study demonstrated that the time of wrestling and fighting through the walls of the cocoon actually gives the wings of the butterfly the strength to take to the air.  The very struggle - all of the pushing and thrashing - of the insect to free itself from restraint is what makes its new life possible.

Without the strife, there is no strength

This is where I have to believe that in all this struggle and strife in my life, that I will break free.... I will have strength in my new wings to fly....
I would love to have the answers to my gazillion quesions.  I would love to be gently cut out of all that restrains and entangles me.....

No matter what I see in myself, He is making me like Him.

I'm growing

I'm changing

Weak made Strong in the Savior's Love

It's funny to me that a catapillar struggles to be freed from it's cocoon, which is really a protection from its environment..... a place where is changes into what it was meant to be.
It seems like I too, am wrapped in God's cocoon.  Wrestling to understand His Love and Truth, shedding my old skin and being formed into a new creature.

This process is hard... and not because it's a hard process... but because, I'm not very good at processes!..... Especially when mine seems painfully slow...

I want to fly
Move
I am so freaking sick of these limitations enclosing me

Isaiah 40:31
Why would you ever complain, Christina,
    or, whine, saying,
“God has lost track of me.
    He doesn’t care what happens to me”?
Don’t you know anything? Haven’t you been listening?
God doesn’t come and go. God lasts.
    He’s Creator of all you can see or imagine.
He doesn’t get tired out, doesn’t pause to catch his breath.    And he knows everything (every part of my heart and mind, every struggle), inside and out.
He energizes you, who gets tired,
    gives fresh strength to dropouts.
For even young people tire and drop out,
    young folk in their prime stumble and fall.
But those who wait upon God get fresh strength.
    They spread their wings and soar like eagles (or Butterflies??!),
They run and don’t get tired,    they walk and don’t lag behind.

I want these Truths to go from wrestlings in my mind and with my flesh to become

Heart truths

Revelations that cause me to break free and FLY

God,

 Help me to trust You in all this.  Help me to see.  Help me to understand what is so dark and unknown to me.  Bring Your light.  Lead me in Your word.  Let Truth become a part of me.

Bring Your Peace to calm this storm and struggle inside.  Help me to rest, Father.  

XOXOXO