Dragonflys...

Something to Share... Jean, our Hospice Nurse gave us this story to help the kids understand what was happening with Grammi, I think it helped the rest of us more than we would have ever thought. I think we're more aware of Dragonfly's now, but it seems that we're seeing them everywhere! Just before I left I went to the cemetery and there were 6 or 7 of them flying around her grave - every time I see one from now on I will think of her and what she meant to all of us.  This Blog will be concluded soon, but hang in there with me a few more weeks. I plan to share the past two weeks with you and make sure to post some pictures of the funeral and our Relay for Life. Thank you everyone for everything.

The Dragonfly Story

By Kaminski Robinson, PMC

Down below the surface of a quiet pond lived a little colony of water bugs. They were a happy colony, living far away from the sun. For many months they were very busy, scurrying over the soft mud on the bottom of the pond. They did notice that every once in awhile one of their colony seemed to lose interest in going about. Clinging to the stem of a pond lily it gradually moved out of sight and was seen no more.

“Look,” said one of the water bugs to another. “One of our colony is climbing up the lily stalk. Where do you think she is going?”

Up, up, up it slowly went. Even as they watched, the water bug disappeared from sight. Its friends waited and waited but it didn’t return…

“That’s funny,” said one water bug to another. “Wasn’t she happy here?” asked a second. “Where do you suppose she went?” wondered a third.

No one had an answer. They were greatly puzzled. Finally one of the water bugs, a leader in the colony, gathered its friends together. “I have an idea. The next one of us who climbs up the lily stalk must promise to come back and tell us where he or she went and why.”

“We promise,” they said solemnly.

One spring day, not long after, the very water bug who had suggested the plan found himself climbing up the lily stalk. Up, up, up he went. Before he knew what was happening, be broke through the surface of the water and fell onto the broad, green lily pad above.

When he awoke, he looked about with surprise. He couldn’t believe what he saw. A startling change had come to his old body. His movement revealed four silver wings and a long tail. Even as he struggled, he felt an impulse to move his wings…the warmth of the sun soon dried the moisture from the new body. He moved his wings again and suddenly found himself up above the water. He had become a dragonfly.

Swooping and dipping in great curves, he flew through the air. He felt exhilarated in the new atmosphere. By and by the new dragonfly lighted

happily on a lily pad to rest. Then it was that he chanced to look below to the bottom of the pond. Why, he was right above his old friends, the water bugs. There they were scurrying around, just as he had been doing some time before.

The dragonfly remembered the promise: “The next one of us who climbs up the lily stalk will come back and tell where he or she went and why.” Without thinking, the dragonfly darted down. Suddenly he hit the surface of the water and bounced away. Now that he was a dragonfly, he could no longer go into the water.

“I can’t return,” he said in dismay. “At least, I tried. But I can’t keep my promise. Even if I could go back, not one of the water bugs would know me in my new body. I guess I’ll just have to wait until they become dragonflies too. Then they’ll understand what has happened to me, and where I went.”

And the dragonfly winged off happily into its wonderful new world of sun and air…

Once we become a Child of God through faith in Jesus Christ our Lord, we have started our journey to heaven. When we die and leave this world, and enter into our eternal home, we cannot come back; just like the dragonfly could not return to the bugs from whence he came.

In the Bible it says that Jesus is preparing our home for us. He said in John 14:1-3, “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, you may be also.”

Thank You, God, for the story of the water bugs and the dragonflies. Thank You, God, for our home in heaven when we leave this earth.