Wisdom & Balance

                             

The Butterfly and the Way of God

A Reflection on Stillness, Surrender, and the Divine Path

As the sun began to set, a butterfly appeared.
Its wings were radiant, flecked with bright orange and shimmering blue.
It moved gently through the golden light,
not striving, not resisting, simply held.

For a moment, time softened.
Watching it brought peace not only to the eyes,
but to something far deeper within
a quiet place that recognizes truth without words.

And then the knowing arrived:
The story of the butterfly is woven into our own wings,
into our breath,
into the way life carries itself on the wind.

God moves like this
without force, without urgency,
teaching us that becoming is not effort,
but surrender to the way we were always meant to fly.

                           

The Path of Transformation

The caterpillar did not resist what it was becoming.
It did not struggle toward wings
or attempt to manage the outcome of its life.
It entered stillness,
rested in the light of God,
and allowed transformation to occur.

It did not hurry the process.
It did not fear disappearance.
What looked like an ending
was simply a deeper obedience to life.

We are taught to strive to improve, to control, to secure meaning.
But peace is not produced by effort.
Peace arrives through release.
By allowing each moment to move through us
without grasping or defense.

Transformation does not require force.
It requires trust.

We are not becoming something new.
We are shedding what no longer belongs.

And in that quiet undoing,
we walk out of the story
and into the light.

                           

Letting Go for the Essence of Love

The journey to peace is not about controlling what surrounds us.
It is about loosening our grip on what we think life should be
and opening to what life is beyond the ego’s imagination.

Peace does not arise from what we acquire or arrange,
but from what we are willing to leave behind.
What is surrendered becomes sacred.

The Tao is the light of God
quiet, eternal, unseen,
and always present when we let go.

                           

The Stillness that Shapes

We empty ourselves
so we can hear the rhythm of the Soul.

Stillness moves like the wind
unshaped by what it passes through,
formed only by the source from which it comes.

Stillness is the way.
It is the way of God.

In stillness,
we soften enough to be reshaped.
What breaks
opens.
What opens
becomes.

Each act of Love
widens the soul,
sending roots deeper
into the Divine.

Let the world be as it is.
Let Love lead.
Let stillness carry you.