Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Thinking about... the nations of the world; buying more music by Peter Gabriel; my one year old and Velcro; differences in world views; calling my brother; warding off guilt for not having called him sooner; noodles; when (if ever) do I ditch grains altogether - or just most grains (I LOVE oats)

Also thinking about the rest of today's busy schedule... Asking for wisdom and creativity from the Great One who freely supplies...

Getting tugged on by a toddler!

Ciao

Friday, March 4, 2011

"B" is for Butterfly. "K" is for King.

"B" - is the second letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. It is used to represent a variety of bilabial sounds (depending on language), most commonly a voiced bilabial plosive. (see Wikipedia for more).

Butterfly - any of numerous slender-bodied diurnal lepidopteran insects including one superfamily (Papilionoidea) with broad often brightly colored wings and usually another superfamily comprising the skippers (see Merriem-Webster for further description).

"B" is for butterfly.

My preschooler is learning about the letter 'B' & for some reason (I'm still trying to decode this one) it seems as if butterflies are trying to tell me something.  It started when I planned a birthday party using butterflies as the starting point.  Butterflies weren't the theme but that's where I started. Ever since then, they are everywhere. I can't get away from them. I look up and see a butterfly. I turn the page, another butterfly. I kiss my daughter, she says, "butterflies!" I blindly pull out pajamas for the wee one. Butterfly print!  While doing lesson plans for my first grader this week, I came across two different  butterfly references from two different publishers. Science highlighted the life cycle & migration of a butterfly while the reading comprehension lesson detailed nothing other than those same slender bodied insects. So I don't really think the butterflies themselves are trying to communicate something to me. I think my Creator is trying to convey something and right now the symbol He's using is butterflies. It's the glory of God to hide a matter and the glory of kings to search it out. Consider me a 'king'.

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