Butterflies are not free to be crickets

October 12 2025
The phone rang and it was Filly’s husband. She had already fallen asleep. It was day number four of total house cleaning from dawn to past dusk. She was WHOOPED. But she answered the phone anyway. Her husband, in Colorado, was visiting the artist friend of the family in Salida. He had painted a herd of horses running which Filly loved. They bought it and it was hanging in the main room in the house. He had also painted Filly’s three girls. A beautiful painting.

He said that the artist, when he found out it was almost her birthday, had given her husband a painting to give her. Filly had asked her husband to SPEND NO MORE MONEY. She thought it was funny that he was the one who bought things on impulse more than she was. Art, Civil war gun (with a saber), Minerals…etc lol. He said he was not buying just visiting.

He called again later to say that the artist had given her a painting as a gift, and did she want to see it or wait till she was in Colorado because the painting was wet and could not be transported. Filly said she wanted her husband to send her a picture.

So he did. It was a beautiful butterfly.

HOW NICE AND LOVELY.
Filly smiled and went back to sleep. Joel Olsteen was on the radio playing and she was listening. The last thing she heard was him saying that God does not “change his mind” about who we are and what we should do with our lives. There are rules for living that are concrete and literally written in stone.
“carved/etched/set/written in stone
noun phrase
: permanent or not able to be changed”
“BUT”, Joel said, “He DOES give us many chances”.

Joel was talking about biblically, how Abraham and his seed had a covenant with God for the promised land but he never made it into the promised land because the people wandered in the desert. Those with Abraham got many chances. God did not change his mind about what was required to get into the promised land.

Filly researched…

Abraham’s father was Terah, who was involved in idol worship. Abraham was called by God to leave his family and homeland, alone with Saraii, who later was called Sarah. But he took his Lot with him as well…which did not follow God’s command so Abraham messed up his first chance and it delayed his “promised land”. Lots wife, looked back at the evil, Sodom, during its destruction by God and turned into a pillar of salt.
Abraham eventually had two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. God promised Abraham a son, and when he did not have a son at first, at age 86 he went to his maid Hagar, and had Ishmael, which means “God hears”, because he thought he was the promised son. But Ishmael was not the son God promised.

So Abraham missed his second chance to do God’s will. Then, when he was 100, fourteen years later, with his own wife Sarah, who was 90, and she had the promised son Isaac. Abraham was tested a third time, for his faith and trust in God when told to sacrifice this promised son Isaac on an alter. He was stopped by an angel because he passed the test of faith.

The narrative continues with Isaac’s sons Jacob and Esau (and Jacob stole Esau’s blessing…another chance missed), and then on to the story of Jacob(whose name was later changed to Israel), and all his trouble with Laban to be able to marry his wife Rachael (tricked to marry Leah her sister as well), fourteen years to be exact which was his consequence for stealing his brothers blessing. This was the same amount of time that Abraham had to wait to have the chosen son with his wife Sarah which was his consequence for using Hagar to try to get the chosen son. Jacobs favored son Joseph (because he was Rachel’s son), who received a coat of many colors from his father, caused his brothers to be jealous. The brothers were half brothers because they were Leah’s sons. The many colors of Joseph’s coat represent the multifaceted nature of God’s favor, which encompasses blessings, provision, and abundance. The length of the coat signifies God’s divine protection, as Joseph was shielded from harm and adversity. Joseph, Rachel’s son, ultimately is freed from slavery and gains power and saves Leah’s sons, whose lineage led to Jesus.

Back to Abraham, his other son Ishmael, went on to be the father of the Ishmaelites,who dealt in slave trade, who were the ones who saved Joseph, from death when his half brothers threw him in the pit. Joseph had coat of many colors, and was sold to Ishmaelites who bought him as a slave. So the Ishmaelites had a role in the fruition of God’s plan for Abraham's lineage. Isaac’s life and legacy are integral to the continuation of God’s promises, as he fathered Jacob, who would become the father of the twelve tribes of Israel, including Joseph’s own tribe.

Esau, Isaac’s other son, who had the blessing tricked away from him, wanted to kill his brother because of that…but it did not stop God’s plan.

Point being, that those in the bible got many chances to do the will of God and even though they failed many times, the plan for their lives to do God’s will was not dismissed

Filly thought about the butterfly gift and it made her think of Epstein and the butterfly trust, because in an article she had read, the butterfly trust he had established in order to fund a different life for himself if he had to hide or be another person. And since his “death” thirteen million had been withdrawn. So, if Epstein was still alive, having turned from a caterpillar into a butterfly, it would explain the difficulties of having an trial if he was not actually dead and also would explain where the money went.
Anyway, what Filly thought was that no one could “transition” to being an entirely different person. A caterpillar could not go into a cocoon and change into a cricket or a housefly or a giraffe.
And the beauty of the butterfly is that it was always intended to be a butterfly from the very beginning. It was eating its way through life as an ugly ground crawling creature and only when it stops being a glutton, does it get beautiful colored wings and begin to fly. It gets chances…which is what God gives people.
If heaven is here now, the chosen land is a multi generational place which is available to those who get it from listening to God. It does not depend on a location, as it is a state of mind. That is what Filly thought. And she knew that the commandments which were written in stone, were still in effect.
Those who try to take the land with aggression and immorality, lying, raping and plundering and killing will not achieve it. Those who defend their land, and the innocent, with faith, purity and integrity of character, will . That was what Filly thought…and if the intended recipient, the father, is taken out wrongly by evil, that persons children will then receive that same blessing that was intended for the father. That was the multi-generational blessing taught in the bible.
Jesus died for the sins of man…similar to how in the family line, The illegitimate son of Abraham and Ha\agar, Ishmael was the father of the Ishmaelites, who saved Joseph, a descendant of Sarah the real wife of Abraham, who saved his half brothers of Leah who tried to kill him during the famine, which led to the lineage of Jesus.
Lots of chances to change and do good.

Randomly chosen bible verse…

“11 But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them..”

Filly thought about Charlie and his talk with Dr. Ben Carson. He talked about the whole reason for living a good life, following Christ was the preservation of humanity. Filly had never thought about it this way. The preservation of humanity was the whole purpose of his debates, to help people understand the purpose of the bible and the commandments, so that they could LIVE and not die. What a beautiful legacy.