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(A little over two years ago, I wrote this for my friend Wanda who had just received her second cancer diagnosis.  Little did I know that God had already given her the image of a butterfly during her first diagnosis!  She is now about to go on her highest flight with those beautiful wings and see the One who was with her in that cocoon of cancer.  Like a butterfly, she has been the epitome of beauty and grace to everyone who knows and loves her.  We love you, sweet Wanda.  Thank you for showing us the love of Jesus every day of your precious life…)

COCOON

The words still ringing in my ears

Refuse to settle in

My mind can’t fathom why or how

This journey will begin

My world is turning upside down

I’m dizzy from the spin

Things are falling all around

From where they once had been

Questions of the future

Calling out their fears

Questions without answers

Pouring out as tears

And then, there in the chaos

I see a butterfly

Unaware the world is upside down

As he flutters by

And yet, his world is new, too

His cocoon now left behind

A journey in this brand new world

Where at last he now can fly

He came from a place of darkness

To a place of light

Once a simple catepillar

Now beautiful and bright

That cocoon, it held a miracle

Of what would one day be

Until the butterfly emerged

For all the world to see

And as I gazed in wonder

At this miracle so small

I knew that my upside down world

Was no mistake at all

But a precious cocoon, a miracle

Of amazing things to come

I’m held in the darkness by the light

That shines down from the Son

Jesus, make me like the butterfly

Do what You will in me

Bring beauty from this dark cocoon

So You’re all that others see.

2 Corinthians 3:18 – So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord–who is the Spirit–makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.

2 Timothy 4:7-8 – I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day…

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