Caterpillar Smart

Proverbs 24:3

Through wisdom is an house builded;

and by understanding it is established.

© 9/10 Angela Beatty

Things aren't always as they seem at first glance. When my daughter was small I took a black and orange woolly caterpillar and put it in a jar. Anita and I had been watching monarch butterflies in the yard, and I told her all about how the caterpillar would spin a chrysalis and come out ready to fly away. Sure enough, the little guy got busy and spun himself a cocoon. And we waited expectantly. I'm not sure who was more disappointed when the creature emerging from the cocoon was an ugly brown moth!

How many times in life do we just look at the people around us and assume we know. We interpret their actions and gauge the motives and feelings behind the actions or attempt to predict how others should respond in certain circumstances. But we fail to actually do the research and are misinterpreting the whole time! It takes time and energy to build relationships and assuming often leads to hurt feelings and walls.

I won't tell you about the time seven or eight years later that I put an orange and black woolly caterpillar in a jar for my son. lol Ah.... how soon we forget some things and repeat the mistakes of yesterday! Sometimes it just takes an ugly brown moth to remind us ;0)