My favorite of all creatures save humans is the butterfly. It changes from stark roughness to amazing beauty. I have been told that it is the only creature whose total DNA changes from crysalis to butterfly.
excerpt from ONLY BY YOUR TOUCH, by Catherine Anderson
"...chrysalis...
"That's where butterflies come from," he explained, touching the fragile shell with his fingertip as he explained the metamorphosis from caterpillar to pupa and then to butterfly. "When I was about your age (6), my grandfather found one of these, and we watched it every day until the butterfly finally came out."
"You got to see it?"
"Actually, no, but there was a butterfly flitting around when we found it empty, and my grandfather believed that it had come out of it's chrysalis just before we got there. He was dying at the time, and I was very young. I think he was trying to prepare me for that final good bye. He'd been trying to teach me the difference between our bodies and our souls. You know what a soul is, don't you?"
"The part of us that goes to heaven?"
"That's right. It's the beautiful part of us that no one can see. It's how we think, and how we feel. More important, though, it's how we make other people think and feel when we're with them. When we die, they bury our bodies, but our souls aren't inside us anymore. They've flown away, just like a beautiful butterfly from it's chrysalis."
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