"A BUTTERFLY HOVERS CLOSELY"

A butterfly hovers closely and then quickly moves away, swiftly going where so ever her heart may freely say. A butterfly lowers and rises with the winds's gusty breath, as if coupled within a dance of a loving tenderness. The butterfly only knows how it feels to have wings, to kiss the petals of flowers in such elegant flitterings. To have but one moment of such an exquisite flight, would be like a dream where all seems so right.

"BIRTH OF A BUTTERFLY"

A mama butterfly lays all her eggs,Out pops a caterpillar, crawling on its legs.The caterpillar first is rather thin,But then it eats till it bursts through its skin.After growing nice and big,The caterpillar climbs on a leaf or twig.It makes a shell where it hangs inside,Then the shell cracks, and the parts divide.Inside the shell, a change was going on,The form of the caterpillar now is gone.When the shell opens, what comes out?A beautiful butterfly fluttering about.

" BUTTERFLY WISHES"

Yesterday a butterfly came floating gently through the sky. He soared up through the atmosphere then drifted close enough to hear. I said, "I'd love to fly with you and sail around the way you do.It looks like it would be such fun to fly up toward the summer sun. But I have not your graceful charm. I haven't wings, just these two arms. I've been designed to walk around. My human feet must touch the ground. Then magically he spoke to me and told me what his wish would be. He said, "What I'd love most to do is walk upon God's Earth with you,To squish it's mud between my toes or touch my finger to my nose.I'd love just once to walk around with human feet to touch the ground, but I have not two legs that swing, I haven't arms, just these two wings."And so we went our separate ways in wonder and surprise. For we'd both seen God's precious gifts through someone else's eyes.