The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Just got back from a quick jog to the store. (By jog I mean car ride, which is never really that quick with 3 kids to load and unload.) 10:30 in the morning and ninety degrees out there! Fshew!
I wonder how our caterpillars are doing in their small, plastic sauna on the back porch: the bug catcher, courtesy of Uncle Tom and Aunt Meredith. We found them yesterday inching around the pool. What amazes me about those little boogers is that Evan had been asking for nearly a week if I would please find him a caterpillar in the yard. I knew I wouldn't be able to- had only seen one months ago, by chance, near the sandbox, and finally told him they were out of season- they were all butterflies right now, (Shaun's idea.) So the discovery of not one but TWO caterpillars yesterday morning was something. That they came to us and we didn't have to search them out, was even more.
I'll confess, I was pretty unhappy about the garden getting mildew and Evan never getting to see them bear fruit. I tend to be disheartened toward the LORD very easily now a days. The up-side to that, as I see it, is that I strongly recognize all things as coming through, by, or from Him. The down-side, is that I also tend to neglect the reality that He knows better than me what is good, and also that I should simply be grateful and overjoyed that my every sin is forgiven, and realize mildew is QUITE relative. (Of course this faith-battle for me doesn't end with mildew but every heart-breaking headline I hear and personalize, which is why His faithfulness in bringing us caterpillars means so much to me...)
He hears our every thought and knows our every longing. He is good enough to credit us for holding Him responsible, and what's more, He's also good enough to not hold us responsible for our ever doubting Him. He rewards our right thinking without punishing our every wrong thought. He credits us with righteousness for every act of faith, no matter how small, but forgives our every doubt and sin.
The caterpillars are not only eating the grass we gave them and living, but one is weaving a cocoon around himself! Call me dramatic and over-the-top, but surely goodness and mercy will follow us all the days of our lives and I will dwell in the house of the Almighty forever!
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