How amazing that the earth-bound caterpillar disappears into a homemade cocoon and is transformed into a beautiful butterfly!  Have you ever wondered what the caterpillar thinks about while it is in the cocoon?  Is it bored?  Is it impatient? Is it complaining about claustrophobia or is it dreaming about sunny days of flight? 

Sometimes we seem trapped in a tight or dark situation.   It is tempting to think that those days are the "new normal" and that is how life will always be.  

It is easy to overlook the transformation that is taking place. Perhaps we longingly remember the days of inching our way along the ground, hostage to gravity and chance.  Perhaps we forget that cocoons are not forever, and that when they break open, it will show that wonderful things have been happening.

God sometimes lets us be pass through dark days.  But it does not mean that He is not working in our lives the miracle of transformation.  Butterflies are not made without long days of darkness and confinement-those are just a prelude to the revelation God has planned.  Know that "He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."  

--Philippians 1:6

Trust that God is indeed using your dark days to accomplish good work in your life. He is with you!