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I have a four-year-old.

He loves playing this game with me when he wakes up in the morning.  It’s a game where he pretends to be a caterpillar and I wrap him up in my bedspread really tightly like he’s in a cocoon.

After trying to keep still for a minute or two (which is very challenging for him) he starts to emerge, but not as a caterpillar anymore, as an amazing butterfly.  He takes the part very seriously, acting out how it takes a while before he can actually fly when he finally breaks free of the case, even resting for a while to allow his body to dry and harden before he can take his first flight.

One of our family’s favorite books is a lovely Max Lucado story about two ordinary caterpillars, Hermie and his friend Wormie, who discover that with God, they are not so ordinary. God tells them, “Don’t worry. I love you both just the way you are, but I’m not finished with you yet.” God makes the ordinary extraordinary.

But what’s all this got to do with ZOE you may ask?

Well as I play with my little guy and read Hermie’s story, I am continually reminded about how God isn’t finished with any of us yet.

And just like we are a work-in-progress, so too are the amazing children living at ZOE.  Their transformations are some of the most dramatic I have ever seen.  I get the pleasure of working with children that the world might label as “damaged stock” or “unworthy,” but I know God sees them as miraculous, unique and one-of-a-kind.

There was no mistake when God made these kids.

God has a purpose and a plan that is good for each one of them.

And each one goes through their changes at different rates.  Some of them might need a little longer before they take their first flight, requiring extra time to crawl out of their cocoon and wait for their crumpled, soggy wings to dry and expand, but when they do eventually emerge as butterflies, there is something incredibly beautiful about their metamorphosis.

Did you know that butterflies can’t fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees F (30 degrees C)?

Would you join me in helping our special ZOE children and teens to keep warm?

Let’s drench them with our prayers, love and our commitment to see them have their lives transformed and fly!