Nature Studies. Who thought that my BIO 101 class would align with my life and lead to a blog about it? I didn’t, that’s for sure. This week in nature studies we learned about monarch butterfly’s and their life cycle. Monarch’s are similar to birds in that they migrate south for the cold winter. Millions of monarch butterflies travel from PA all the way down to Sierra Chincua, Mexico (I would love to go there sometime in my life!). Okay so cool, millions of these butterflies travel down to Mexico for the winter. What makes this so cool is that each butterfly heads back to where it was born. Okay great. But if anyone knows about where PA is in location to Mexico it’s not very close and the life cycle of a butterfly does not allow it to make this migration back home possible. Ready? So the butterfly dies on it’s way back home and their children continue this trek and then they can’t make it back either and finally their children make it back home. This means that the grandchildren of a butterfly somehow find it’s way home to where their grandparents were born. I don’t know, is it just me or is this really sweet? God has created these creatures to instinctively know when to migrate and where to go after generations have passed.
So God has a plan for these butterflies… who knows where this is headed?…. God has to have a plan for me, for us. It has hit hard this week. I’m graduating in roughly 100 days (as February 7). I don’t know what I’m going to do in the fall. I have ideas, and I have a couple plans that may or may not happen. I’m having difficulty in choosing which path is right. How do I know the path that God wants me to choose? The monarchs know. I never thought I would say it but I wish I was more like a monarch butterfly. I want to pick the path that God wants me to.
Matthew 6:34 after the part about how God cares for the birds and makes the flowers look awesome says this (Message Version) ”Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.”
So real. Love it.
