When you think of a butterfly, you think of a delicate insect with beautiful wings that are easily damaged. However, when a butterfly emerges from its cocoon, it struggles until it breaks through the chrysalis, forming a hole and squeezing its body through. Through that immense effort, working through the cocoon develops fortitude and strengthens its wings. Pushing through the hole squeezes the fluid from its body into its wings slimming down the body and inflating the wings. The butterfly is meant to struggle; it needs the struggle to forge it into a complete and functioning butterfly.
Category: Devotional Writings
Love’s Letters is Now Available!
When the publisher of Love’s Letters: A Collection of Timeless Relationship Advice from Today’s Hottest Marriage Experts contacted us to be a part of the project and I saw the names of the other authors, I was floored. We have their books and now we get to write one with them!
Monday Morning Coffee and Chat 1/25/21 – Love’s Letters!
Happy Monday! Today I’m chatting about Love’s Letters: A collection of Timeless Relationship Advice from Today’s Hottest Marriage Experts!
Grab a cup of coffee and join me!
Do Not Forget To Entertain Strangers
I was alone in the dining room. This is a long room – the length of the church building – and I was at the end, near the kitchen, well away from the only entrance to the room. As I was sorting bread, I turned around and a man was standing right next to me, his arms outstretched as if he was coming in for a hug. He was tall, unkempt, unshaven, sweaty, filthy, and he smelled really bad. I’d never seen him before. But I hugged him anyway. It felt wrong not to. He slapped me on the back and said, “I’ve just been telling people about Jesus!”
You Aren’t An Impostor
I suffer from this on an extreme. It just is how my brain works. I’m not sure what triggers it — maybe it’s a subconscious reminder of a series of bad decisions through my teen and young adult years or maybe it’s just how I’m wired — but the entire time I’m writing, teaching, speaking, or just interacting with people in my day-to-day life, in the back of my mind I’m waiting for someone to expose me as a fraud. To claim and make sure everyone knows and understands that I don’t have the right to my authority, to my words, to my talents.
