Butterfly Ballet

Today is my birthday!!!!    I have had the most wonderful day already but what I want to share with you is my morning.

We will have to go back in time for a moment for you to understand how special the following event was.

A long time ago I was telling Jesus that one of the things I miss about not being a part of a couple is the little intimate moments.

For example when two people in love look across a room and make eye contact and smile. When they laugh at the same thing cause it's an inside joke or brought a shared memory. The little touches as you pass by one another or that look that seems to see your very soul and says how much you love each other without using words.

I now I'm a hopeless romantic.

Anyway I was sharing these things with my sweet Jesus and He reminded me how much I love butterflies. He told me that He would show me butterflies in random places and different ways and each time He did, He would be saying He loves me.

Is that romantic or what?

Over the years the Lord has done just that. Whether it be a picture of a butterfly, a T-shirt, or the real thing , Jesus has been consistent. 

One time while visiting Tennessee, my favorite place, I was looking for a hotel for the kids and I to stay at. I decided to pull into one of the many I had passed and hoped it was the right one. As we walked up to the front entrance there was a wooden bench outside the door. Guess what it looked like? You got it, a butterfly bench.

One time I was walking through the woods and butterflies were floating around me and I put out my hand and one landed right on my finger. I just looked up toward the Heavens and said “I love you too Jesus.”

The Lord has used butterflies to help me know I'm making the right decisions like when I was moving to Tampa and the Lord told me we would live in the Ruhe house. 

When I walked in their kitchen they had this huge butterfly artwork on top of the cabinets and as soon as I saw it I felt peace.

OK so you get the picture, back to my morning.

I woke up and made some coffee and decided to drink it on the porch. While I was standing there looking at my beautiful view the Lord has blessed me with something caught my eye. 

 

There in the tall grass I noticed a bunch of butterflies dancing all around as if to say Happy Birthday. I of course said “show off” to my sweet Jesus and thanked Him.

That would have been enough to make my morning, watching them dance about as a group but suddenly something unexpected happened.

One at a time a single butterfly would come to the area of grass that was cut and fly up and down and all around in front of me as if it were performing a solo in this butterfly ballet I was witnessing.

As soon as one went back to the group another would come out. Each one a different color and size. I stood there enamored by this unexpected surprise unfolding in front of me.

The final butterfly was a baby one. It was so small you had to really focus to see it. It flew out and did it's performance before me and the King then unlike the others it landed on the ground as if to take the final bow.

Gems it was incredible!  I know I must have had the biggest smile on my face. 

 

I thanked my sweet Jesus for such an amazing birthday present,

for a sweet intimate moment between us that I will forever cherish.

When I went back inside Jessica came home with a dozen long stem roses. I have never received long stem roses before!

I was so surprised! As I was still taking in the moment I heard the Lord whisper to me “every great performance ends with the Prima Ballerina getting flowers.”

Now you may be saying, man this girl has one vivid imagination. And ya know what I would say "yes I do."

 I have an amazing, vivid, animated, brilliant, colorful, dramatic, dynamic, expressive graphic, spirited imagination and guess who gave it to me?

My sweet Jesus so I wouldn't miss one of His blessings, especially Butterfly Ballets!