MARK 11:23 NIV

Pixar made an animated film a number of years ago called A Bug's Life. It was about the life of....bugs. One of the characters is a chubby caterpillar with a German (by way of Arnold Schwarzenegger) accent named Heimlich. All throughout the film Heimlich anticipates his metamorphosis when he will transform into a beautiful, beautiful butterfly. He is a chubby rubbery thing and would certainly have to change (a lot) to be a beautiful butterfly. At the end of the film Heimlich is in his cocoon, his chubby rubbery caterpillar head poking out of the top. The cocoon opens and his caterpillar body slides out unchanged. He plops on the ground and as he does two little wings pop out of his back. They are tiny like corn kernels. His wings begin flapping and soon he is flying (about two inches off the ground). He yells to those "below", " Look! I'm flying! I am a beautiful butterfly" and before he flies away he says, " You all look like little ants from up here!" Which is mostly because they are ants.....

All this aside, Heimlich is flying. Heimlich, the chubby caterpillar transforms into a "beautiful" butterfly. When you pray for something over an extended period of time and it happens are you grateful to your God who made it happen because you believe in Him? Or do you question why you still also have a caterpillar body beneath your "wings"? The wings God gave you?

K