Transformation

Lord, help me replace the worms of bitterness from hurt, loss, and deception with caterpillars that reveal the tapestry of the life you intended for me.

I have rested (sometimes unwillingly) in the cocoon of your love as you have stretched me and grown me in your ways through some pressing and really uncomfortable seasons.

Let me emerge in this next season a beautiful butterfly, coated in your protective scales, and draped in vibrant color, giving the appearance of frailty yet strong enough to travel thousands of miles. 

Just as a butterfly carries pollen from fruit, vegetables and flowers to produce new seed, may my life reflect the pollination of the seeds of the living God.

May the wings you have designed for me stretch out to the heavens and soar, on the breeze of the breath you exhaled on the cross for me and the breath you breathed when you exhaled your Holy Spirit out on me.

Much love,

Chrissy