Metamorphosis

A thought strike me in my wee morning awaken hours. What goes through the mind of the caterpillar as it eats to grow, grow to morph into a butterfly?

How much faith would it have taken that little insect to totally trust the bodily instincts and body clock to act as it goes through its varies parts of its life cycle?

Imagine having to grow out of an egg into a multi-legged caterpillar. Its hairy, segmented, eats all the time. Every now and then, it out grows its exoskeleton and needs to moth into a bigger one. Most would consider a caterpillar an ugly organism. Would it know that from what it seems as the bottom of the charts, it'll one day be right at the top? Would it realize that one day, he would be transformed into a butterfly? From multi-legged to a flying creature leh!

It is not without hard work that the caterpillar goes through its life cycle from an egg, into the larvae stage (caterpillar), into the pupa (chrysalis) stage and finally into the beautiful insect that flies!

What if the caterpillar gave up? it'll be unable to reach its eventual stage, that would be quite sad right?

I'm drawing a parallel to me life to the life cycle of the caterpillar. Every stage of life, there seems to be a egg stage when I have little clue of what's going on. Then comes the caterpillar stage when I have to eat and ingest all the information, happenings that is occurring. Also have to run away from potential danger. Then comes the toughest stage when you have to inactivate all your physical activities, slow down, allow major transformation to take place. The chrysalis stage, when the caterpillar have to re-organize its entire being. No more multi-legged animal. No more chunky hard outer shell. No more hairy back. Even the internal organs needs to be shuffled, needs to undergo metamorphosis.

Its liken to the training of being a student of life, student of some degree, student of Christ. Our internal guts have to undergo re-organization first before we can emerge as beautifully as the butterfly.

Scientific details of the life cycle of the Butterfly here with pictures.

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