Thursday, January 23, 2020

Butterflies

There once was a colony of caterpillars who lived in a tree.  Every day they would creep around on the leaves, eating the leaves, and watching out for birds.

One day a butterfly came and landed among them. The butterfly had huge beautiful colourful wings, could fly, did not have to crawl around and stay in one tree all the time.

The caterpillars said “Wow, butterfly, you are so beautiful and amazing!  We really admire you for being so wonderful!”

But the butterfly said “Don’t you know?  You are all meant to be butterflies!  This is what you were created to be!”

The caterpillars said “How is that possible? You are so beautiful and nimble and light, and we are so clumsy and ugly and slow!”

The butterfly said “You were made to be like me. You must wrap yourself in a cocoon for a few days.  That’s where you will be transformed, and you will emerge as butterflies!”

Then the butterfly flew to another tree, to tell more caterpillars the good news!

The caterpillars argued amongst themselves. Some said “It’s impossible- he was lying to us. We will never be anything more than caterpillars.”

But others said “We believe him!  If we go into cocoons we will emerge as butterflies!”

This group began calling themselves ‘The Butterflies’ because they believed.  But when it came time to go into cocoons, they said “Wow… that’s a big sacrifice. We wouldn’t be able to do anything caterpillar ish for several days! It’s scary! It looks like work!”  And so they decided not to go into cocoons.

From that day forward, there were the caterpillars who did not believe, and the caterpillars who did, who called themselves butterflies, but remained exactly like the other caterpillars anyway.

The end.

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