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Sarah met him one day in August, not too long after his birthday. It was still warm out, but fall was just around the corner. It's a beautiful time of year. It's the time when it is still warm enough to wear a shirt with short sleeves during the day, but when the sun is coming up or going down, you should probably adjust your wardrobe to something slightly warmer. It was her last summer of youthful innocence. I think everybody has one of those. She had recently graduated high school and the world was hers for the taking. At that time, Sarah was very sure of who she was, and what she wanted out of life, or so she thought. Her introduction to him was brief, and while it wasn't totally orthodox, it was what she would refer to as a beautiful moment. A beautiful moment in Sarah's mind, was one in which she opened her heart to the romance of the butterflies.
The butterflies rushed her heart in a way she had never felt on the day she met him. He wasn't her usual type. Actually, come to think of it, he was completely opposite of the usual people she allowed into her life. She was born and raised in a Christian home with strong values. At a young age, she had made a personal decision to follow God with her whole heart. As with a lot of people, the journey down the road of life had been a brutal assault on her faith and she had come to the place where she decided to take the easy road. It was easier to fall into place in life among the ordinary than to walk in the footsteps of the righteous and stand with her face to the wind.
Of course, in her defense, she had seen her share of hard times, and life experience had taken her far beyond her eighteen years. As a matter of fact, Sarah often used that as an excuse for her actions. It wasn't always intentional, but it did occasionally come in handy. Any way you look at it she had seen quite a bit of trouble and she needed something to fill the hole that existed within her. She felt that hole disappear when the butterflies came that day. They became her emotional satisfaction, a fluttering answer to her desperate prayers for fulfilment of a life long dream. She'd dreamt about this for as long as she could remember. He was the classic love story kiss, her night in shinning armor, and the fairytale ending to the bumpy trail that had been her life. He became her everything.
Love flourished in the time of butterflies. Her heart found a haven in him. He was a constant reminder that she was beautiful. He was her beautiful forever. Every day they spent together was one less they could stand to be apart. Emotions grew deeper until everything she had was rooted in him. The seasons came and went and after two years, they decided to make the ultimate declaration of love. They married in December of that year. It was the only thing she had left to give, and she felt as though it would complete her, but she soon found out that there was a part of her that was still empty, and it devastated her that there was a hole in her soul that even the butterflies couldn't fill. Things had been rough between them, but with this realization, things began to get worse, and before they knew it, there was an ocean between them and no life raft in sight. Things came to a heart stopping end.
For six months, she was bitter, and there were not enough Kleenexes on the east coast to soak up the tears she cried for him, so her pillow had to do the job. She was angry at God for allowing her to feel this pain even though she still felt the butterflies. She was bitter at the world. It was unfair that everyone else was living their happy ending and she was stuck in brokenheartsville. Sarah's bitterness soon turned to hatred and anger, and she found herself thinking about him more and more and beginning to question if it was over. She tried time and time again to let it go, but she seemed to always find an excuse as to how they could make it work. She made attempt after attempt to fix the mess that was her life, and continuously made exhaustive efforts to mend the brokenness of their marriage. Finally one night after her last attempt, she cried for hours upon hours in her room. She cried out to God for him to release her. It was the first time in years that Sarah cried out to God with everything she had. She prayed for God to hold her in his arms. She needed love and she finally realized that it was God's love and God's love alone that she needed. It was his unfailing love that filled the hole and completed her life. God wrapped his arms around her that night and she knew she would never be the same.
She saw him two days later, and while she wasn't as strong as she thought she was, Sarah knew she was on the way to putting her heart back together again. That night, on the way home, Sarah began talking to God. She prayed that the final release from the situation would come soon, and that God would take the butterflies away so that she could let go. She knew the time had come to fully resolve this in her heart, but the butterflies wouldn't stop their dance within her. And that night, for the first time in a long time, she heard the voice of God clearly. "My child, you can't put your heart back together until you get all the pieces back. Do not blame the butterflies. For it is not butterflies you feel, but flutterbies. Flutterbies are feelings of happiness that you feel for a season, but then they fade away. Butterflies build in your stomach, and they lay in wait in their cocoons for the right moment to be released. They do not come in a time of trial or when you are unsteady and unstable. They blossom in a time of peace and happiness. They are set free when you are complete in yourself and in me. You have traveled far off the path that I have set for you, but I see your desire to return to me once again. So here is what I will do for you. I will release from this, this love in the time of flutterbies, that you may return me and find yourself in me. Find out who you are in me, so that when the time has come, your prince will discover you for who you truly are. And when the moment is right and that man has come, you will be overwhelmed at the flutters within. There will be thousands upon thousands to the point that they will lift you off the ground out of your circumstance and you will witness the true and unfailing power of love. Until then, wait upon me your God. I will be your strength and your comfort. I will fill the void within your heart. Remember this experience because it will teach you many things, but just know that the time has not yet come, but I do promise to give you the desire of your heart. One day you will feel love like you have never felt love."
Sarah went to her up to her room that night and thanked God for the closure and release that he had given her, and somehow knew that everything would be alright from that moment on. And as she laid her head down to fall asleep she prayed to the Lord, "I will wait for the butterflies to bloom, as I know they sit waiting in their cocoons. And with this release I will no longer cry because I have learned a lifetime of lessons from my Love in the time of Flutterbies."
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