Heart Hope by Olga

It’s a little late in the season to see the beautiful butterflies floating through the air. So when I came upon one on the fencepost I wanted to snap a picture to help me remember it during the long winter ahead. With its wings flapping up and down, it was difficult to get just the right moment captured. If I snapped the picture too early, the wings would not be spread and if I hit the button too late, the wings would already be closing. So I found that if I clicked the button as the wings were just beginning to open the full display of the colorful wing was caught on the camera. It’s the same in business—if you’re too early people may not understand, but if you are too late, people have already made other choices. Even relationships may have similar results. A move made too quickly could scare someone off, but if you wait too long the window of opportunity may be closed. We tend to think that our timing is the right timing, so when things don’t happen accor...

There has been a beautiful tiger swallowtail butterfly following me for days.  I’m sure it’s not the same butterfly all of the time and it is not really following me, but is sure seems like it.  The butterfly always seems to come up from behind me and swoops right in front of me, floating off into the distance faster than I can chase it.  I’ve seen it: Walking on the path Biking by the river Eating lunch with a friend Walking the dogs By the soccer fields In my yard Going in all directions In the morning, the mid-day and in the evening Just maybe I have been seeing the butterfly around to remind me that first he was just a lowly worm crawling amongst the grass, trees and plants to get enough food to sustain him during the period of transformation in the cocoon and that when leaving the cocoon there must be a struggle in order for its wings and body to be ready to soar.  So if you are like me and have struggles going on in your life, just remember that...

Several years ago I was sitting in Las Vegas with one of my co-workers when a deep conversation ensued around the topic of evolution versus creation. This young man was telling me how he thought the world had come into being, explaining his big bang/cell evolution theory. That’s not exactly the way I believe it happened and since I had just been teaching a Bible study on the first chapter of Genesis, I was armed and ready for him.  My rebuttal for his hypothesis was that if everything on this planet evolved from one cell, I could possibly accept that one bunny rabbit might have evolved by chance, but what I could never accept is that another bunny rabbit of the opposite sex would have developed at exactly the same time in exactly the same place, so that they could then mate and produce other little bunnies, so how could I ever accept the fact that the same thing happened with every mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, plant, tree, etc?  The only thing I have to do is loo...