{"id":1454,"date":"2009-11-04T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2009-11-26T14:32:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T19:32:32","slug":"butterflies-november-4-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/butterflies-november-4-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies, November 4 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\"><div id=\"attachment_1619\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1619\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1619\" title=\"Photo_101909_016[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Photo_101909_0161-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Look closely\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Photo_101909_0161-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Photo_101909_0161-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Photo_101909_0161.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Look closely<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Can you find the butterflies in this picture?\u00a0 Look really closely can you see them?\u00a0 There is an orange butterfly sitting on a purple flower on the left and another orange butterfly towards the bottom right hand corner. You almost missed them and maybe you still cannot see them.\u00a0 If I had not pointed them out you would never have noticed they were there at all.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>How many flower bushes do we walk past daily and the thought of looking for the butterflies does not occur to us?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How many &#8220;butterflies&#8221;-\u00a0people in your life that are very comfortable blending into the background- do you personally know?\u00a0 Little creations of beauty that God has graced our lives with?\u00a0 Delicate, gentle and rare people in our lives, they\u00a0do no harm but only give quiet love.\u00a0 With wings like angels that are carried on the slightest breeze of life?\u00a0 Precious and transparent, giving off only pure\u00a0and radiant goodness?<\/p>\n<p>They are all about us.\u00a0 One has only to look.\u00a0 They tend to blend in with the scenery\u00a0and are missed all together all too often.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>Who in your life is beautiful because you can see straight through to their soul?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Who in your life demands no attention, no fanfare, and is honestly modest?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Who in your life, past or present brings you\u00a0calmness and a quiet peace by their mere presence?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Who in your life turns their life over to be taken\u00a0by the breeze to where ever it takes them with no resistance?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Who are the butterflies in your life?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>They don&#8217;t want to be noticed.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>They need only to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Thank God that He has blessed our lives with such rare, delicate, transparent, beautiful\u00a0&#8220;butterflies&#8221; to love and guide us on our journey.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you find the butterflies in this picture?\u00a0 Look really closely can you see them?\u00a0 There is an orange butterfly sitting on a purple flower on the left and another orange butterfly towards the bottom right hand corner. You almost missed them and maybe you still cannot see them.\u00a0 If I had not pointed them out you would never have noticed they were there at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[362,53,363,364,365],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}