One year post Stem Cell transplant for Multiple Myeloma,
I was feeling grateful to be able
to enjoy the wonderful experience of attending the Sister's Quilt show this year.
For me, it proved to be gratifying in many ways.
The quilts of course were so much fun!
My husband estimates that out of the 1,500 that were displayed, we probably saw about 85 percent. That's pretty good! considering how hot a mid-July Saturday in Sisters, Oregon can get.
Among the treasures that I brought home with me, was a fat quarter I found while perusing one of the town's antique shops. It was $1.25 and had been previously cut into by someone wanting to use only one of the many butterflies.
I took it home and proceeded to cut and fuse a few of the butterflies onto scraps of fabric that I pulled out of my scrap bins and stitched together. Some of this fabric was an old dish towel that I had previously watercolor painted and used in another quilt.
The top quilting was random and included a handful of different thread colors.
To finish my little quilt, I faced and mounted it onto a stretched 8" x 8" canvas.
This morning, while looking up butterfly symbolism, I found the following:
The Metaphor of the
Butterfly
The
cycle of the butterfly in and of itself holds spiritual teaching and insight
for us.
Birthed from an
egg the butterfly lives its early life as a caterpillar.
It then retreats
within the pupa or chrysalis where it undergoes a transformation, and finally
when it leaves the chrysalis it is reborn as a beautiful winged butterfly.
The magnificent
life of the butterfly closely mirrors the process of spiritual transformation
as we each have the possibility to be reborn through going within.
By retreating
from the world into our inner being, surrounding ourselves in cocoons of
prayer, meditation, spiritual books and courses, we're ready at some point to emerge.
Awakened and ready to fly, we're transformed and reborn into an entirely new
way of being.
In
addition to how they live their miraculous life, butterflies don't live long.
They typically only live for a few weeks or months at the longest, which in and
of itself offers more guidance for us. Guidance that life is short. Even for
humanity time moves quickly, and so the butterfly with its magnificent and yet
short life, reminds us to enjoy the here and now.
I also
like to think that the transformation of the butterfly, as well as each of our
own spiritual transformations continue onward after death. With death we
retreat from the physical world, but once again we are reborn into another
dimension where we get our wings, and remember our full light and how to fly.
http://www.ask-angels.com/spiritual-guidance/butterfly-meaning/
