I ran across these remarks from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen:
"A caterpillar looked into the sky and, seeing a butterfly, said, 'You'll never get me up on one of those things.' A tadpole reflected to another tadpole, 'I think I will stick my head above the water.' The other corrected him saying, 'Do you mean to say there is something else besides water?'"
The lesson here is to never say never and there is always something more than we have experienced above the surface of our living.
Every caterpillar will, if it wants to or not, be transformed into a winged butterfly and every tadpole will stick its head through the upper layer of the water and experience a whole different existence. The same is true for humanity. Every human being will enter that place I call a sacred juncture where, after having lived life in the same old way, will be confronted with a higher, better way of living.
Some humans will do that by entering winged flight, soaring like the butterfly, while others will just pop their heads through their own surface water, experiencing a whole new world. One thing remains certain: once our time comes - caterpillar, tadpole, or human - we will be transformed.
My prayer is that all of us embrace transformational living by never saying never and by knowing that there is more to life than our own limited experience. Yes, there is something more. So let's do as the psalmist requests and 'lift our eyes to the hills' [Psalm 121:1].
Liftingly yours,
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