Larry the caterpillar

After years of consenting to pets and then remembering just why we tend to get rid of them a few months later, we stumbled upon Larry. A friend brought by a milkweed with a tiny brown speck on it. She told us that it was a caterpillar and gave us instructions to make sure it always had fresh milkweed and told us to have fun watching it grow. Larry was difficult to see at first without a magnifying glass, but within weeks he grew into a plump caterpillar. Every morning the kids would go check on Larry and see how he had grown in the night. The thrilling part was watching him go through the metamorphic state and transpire into a butterfly. It was miraculous! We loved Larry. It was fascinating to watch the process of a little speck on a weed turning into a magnificent butterfly who could fly and see the world. As I thought about this I realized how much we are like Larry ... just little specks on this earth with a very limited vision. But God sees more. He can take us and turn us into something beautiful. He can help us spread our wings and enable us to fly.