Psyche

For those of you that know me well you know that over the last few years the butterfly has become very significant to me.  It has come to represent me and my journey in life.  It began when I gave a talk about aspects of my life and how The Lord has transformed me and redeemed me.

I used the analogy that I was like the butterfly in that I used to be like a lowly little caterpillar in her dark cocoon just waiting to be freed.  God through the years has slowly but surely freed me from that dark place to see the sunshine of His face.  In discovering His love for me and His gifts of healing and redemption, I have become and am becoming the beautiful, colorful, free-flying butterfly He created me to be.  My wings still have some growing to do but I am so grateful for the flight that He has me on.

Well, this morning I was doing research on the butterfly to get information for a project on which I am working.  I came across a list of the words for butterfly in different languages as in papillon is the French word.  I decided to look up the Greek word for it.  It is PSYCHE!

The definition of psyche is:  The human soul, mind, or spirit or the invisible animating entity which occupies the physical body.  (vocabulary.com/dictionary/psyche)  OMG!  Now the butterfly has even more relevance to me in my spiritual walk!  It is what animates my body through the presence of the Holy Spirit that lives within.  

Thank You, Lord Jesus, for giving me this little nugget of information that is such a gift to my Psyche, my Spirit, my Butterfly!  Let's fly!!!