By Samantha Taylor, Health & Fitness Expert
I recently saw this huge butterfly that was caught in a cobweb that was flapping his wings sporadically trying to get free of impending doom. Well, I couldn’t watch it suffer, so I went over to rescue him and got him out, and he flew away! After seeing this, I felt compelled to research butterflies and I was surprised to find out that the butterfly lays eggs on leaves, then those become caterpillars, then those form into a chrysalis (which is similar to a cocoon) and then that becomes a butterfly! Did you know that? I did not realize that it was actually the eggs from a butterfly!
The amazing part about that is the DNA inside that caterpillar that is crawling around on the ground and climbing trees, it is designed to fly. It is designed to soar and has to go through the transformational process of the stages to get to that place.
That’s so similar in our own lives. I don’t know about you but I feel like my entire life has been turned upside down in the last couple of years. It has been brutal adjustments. We don’t want the bad things that happen, but we can either let them destroy us when they do or we can adjust and figure out what we’re supposed to do and how we’re supposed to live our life now.
And to me, that’s similar to the butterfly because its old self has to die off. It goes into this shell that it makes and supernaturally, the new butterfly comes to existence through the guided processes that God has designed inside that dark place wrapped up inside of that shell. Even the scientists said that they believe it’s a type of resurrection that the old dies and the new is born. How similar that is how the Bible talks about the experience when we become born again!
One thing I thought about was how that caterpillar doesn’t know it’s going to be a butterfly as it’s crawling around on the ground. It doesn’t know it’s going to be soaring, flying above trees, but that DNA is already inside of it to do that. You possibly have no idea of your potential, what you can actually accomplish when you go through the process that God has for you in transformation and becoming this new version of yourself, which is exactly what I’ve been going through too.
Scientists say that the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to a butterfly is one of the most profound phenomena that happens in nature. It reminds me how Romans 12:1 says to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. And that word transformed, in scripture that was written thousands of years ago, means “to change from one form or shape to another and it actually means metamorphosis”! The more I study the similarities of a caterpillar going to a butterfly, being like our transformation and our relationship with God with our new nature and new life, I find it astounding.
As many of you know, due to the effects of Covid, I had to close all five of my studios and two years before that, my husband of 29 years, suddenly became ill and died. Two unexplainably difficult traumas to go through. So here I am in this place having to figure out how to transform in the midst of trauma, in the midst of a dark cocoon wrapped around me where it’s intense and emotional and all completely different.
But one thing that I was inspired about with that butterfly is there is a moment when that outer shell is going to bust open. And that butterfly is going to come out of that cocoon with giant wings that it did not have only two weeks earlier! And all the sudden it’s time for that butterfly to flap its wings and fly. Wow! Too bad it doesn’t have any conscious awareness of what it just experienced! One thing I am about to bust out and do is launch my youtube channel, so be on the lookout for that too.
If you’re in a place that you would like some help with transformation, that is what I still specialize in, but online. The last online 6-week program I did, the 27 women lost 282 pounds without counting calories; the top winner lost 23 pounds the 2nd and 3rd lost 20! So, if you’d like to set up a Transformation Call with me, go to my website, I’d love to help you be able to have transformation in your health and soar above your circumstances. www.SamanthaTaylor.com