Butterfly Metamorphosis
Today is 05/04/2020 and I am at home together with millions of people around the world.
Yes, though outside is a bright sunny day due to the current situation in the world we are not allowed to go out in the streets, a walk in the park, or have a normal life.
Few months ago the world was presented with something called Covid19 a virus that has been killing a lot of people and the only way to keep safe is, to first have God's protection and second stay indoors as much as possible, take the precautions we need if we go out.
Countries are in total lock down and we are praying for all this to pass - though, for those who read and believe in what is written in the Bible, we know all this is only the beginning of something great (but this is a subject for another time, another post).
Many people are not coping well with all that is happening. Families are inside 24/7 and they have to face each other, whether they like it or not.
And I was thinking, how many times the school was the way out for kids from those daily fights inside their houses, the work was the way out, the place where the person would take a breather from the continuous abuse caused by a spouse or a family member.
Going to pubs, bars, night clubs and cinema, was the way out people sought to forget their pain of loneliness, the pain of not having a person by their side or maybe they even had but was not supportive, the way out of a bad day at work, the way out of bad news, the way out of this, of that, of the other....they would see in all this a safe haven even from themselves.
But let's go back to the title of this post: Butterfly Metamorphosis.
I believe everyone know how a butterfly is born correct? If not, see picture below:
Everything starts with a little egg that turns into a not so beautiful caterpillar. After the caterpillar closes itself inside a "shell" called chrysalis.
The caterpillar stays inside the chrysalis!!! All this process can take up to an year. One year before we have an amazing and beautiful butterfly.
What happens while the caterpillar is inside, only God knows but I do believe that the transformation is not easy, I believe there is a bit of pain for the caterpillar.
But the result..no one can deny...is one more beautiful miracle of the nature.
Now, what has this to do with me, with you, with the world and the current situation?
EVERYTHING!
At the moment we all are like that caterpillar closed inside the chrysalis, as we are not allowed to go out - or at least we should not go.
Now the outcome from this "closure" will depend only on each one of us.
We have many options / ways that we can follow but can you imagine if the caterpillar decide not to follow the order? Will it become that beautiful butterfly? No way.
We can decide not to obey the law and keep going out because we can't take it any more inside the house with all our family, we can fight, shout, argue and have 24/7 bad environment around us, we can close ourselves inside of a room in the house and only come out to the daily tasks such as shower, eat, etc.., we can sleep the whole day, we can seat in the sofa and watch all movies and novels and everything that is on TV, we can pretend that we need to buy food every time just to go out, we can do loads of things that honestly will not help us, don't you agree?
But we can also stop, think and take the advantage of this times to improve.
Improve as a person, look inside of us, see how we have been reacting to all this, why we are reacting like that and see what you can do to grab this "lemon" and turn it in a sweet lemonade.
We have many things we can improve, our way of looking to people, the way we deal with them, the way we talk to them, caring for others, not thinking only in ourselves, realizing that after all we do not need to waste so much time in things that now we can leave without.
For those who are married, improve your weeding, go back to those dating times when you will do all to please him/her. Before maybe there was no time for the two of you to seat and watch a movie during the week but now the time is there, what are we doing with it?
Improve your relation with our family, maybe we had no time to contact them, because we live in another country, but now we have plenty if time to do it and, again, what are we doing with that time?
Improve your career, learn a new skill or language?
But more important than all this, improve our communication with God.
Many of us, again, due to the "lack" of time we did not speak to the One who can supply to us in a way that we will not lack nothing.
And when I say we do not lack anything I really mean we do not lack anything.
When we have daily communication with God, His love and peace fill our inner self in a way that we do not need our work to run away from a problem, we do not need to drink, to smoke, to go to a pub, bar to have momentary happiness because the happiness that He gives is permanently 24/7.
No matter what the situation we are going through, no matter the problem, no matter the desert, God is there, bringing peace, confidence that we are not alone.
Is it easy to get that peace, that joy, that continues happiness? No, there is a process...like the butterfly.
We need to go through some stages to go from a caterpillar in to a beautiful butterfly.
Why not take the advantage that we are inside our house to go through that process and come out a better person, a new person?
Why don't you give a chance to God to transform you from inside out? How?
Very easy...the first step is to put in to practice some of the advises above.
Invest in you, in your family, in your marriage.
And the most important step: communication with God.
Go to your room, seat in your bed, close your eyes, ask Him to seat there, by your side and open up, open up about all that is inside of you, your fears, your insecurities, that emptiness that causes a huge pain, that depression, those panic attacks that come every time you feel insecure, that addiction that is killing you, that low self esteem that block you, your life.
See how simple it is? Will all be gone in one conversation? No. That is the first step for that transformation to happen, you will need to keep that conversation for the rest of your life, and just change the way of doing things.
If you are not able to do it alone, click this link, you will see a Help Center that can help you to keep walking this new path.
And you will see that when we are able to go back to what society calls "normal" you will not see it as normal any more because you turn in to a better version of yourself.
You will not need to get drunk to forget the problems, you will not need to go to a pub, bar, night club, to laugh, to be happy because you will have it inside of you, you will not need to create all excuses to go out from your house because you and your family will be more united than ever.
Think about this. Let the amazing and beautiful butterfly that is inside of you to come out.
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