The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly.

Matshona Dhliwayo
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This saying is a reminder that we shouldn’t judge things that we don’t understand. We often think we know everything there is to know about someone, and yet we still can’t see the person as they really are. The caterpillar is the ugly part of the butterfly and it drives the butterfly to become beautiful by transforming into a beautiful butterfly. This is an example of how people can change for the better through adversity.

A lot of people assume that they can’t love another person unless they look like them, but this isn’t true! When we trust in God, God can change us from ugly caterpillars into beautiful butterflies without changing anything about us. Sometimes we need to see what we don’t want to see or what we expect will never happen in order to realize that it can and will happen if we choose to believe.

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