Monthly Monday: Happiness Is a Butterfly

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

After such a long time of chasing this butterfly, I have found this to be true. It seemed as if I had been chasing it for miles and miles, and finally I couldn't go anymore. I didn't want to let it out of my sight. I didn't want it to get away. I could almost reach it, but then my body wouldn't let me go any farther. Before falling to the ground I reached out and grabbed it, just enough to feel it slip through my fingers and watch it fly away. After lying on the ground for so long, it came to me one day and landed in my hand, out of nowhere. It came right when I needed it to, and the happiness it brought me pulled me through some of my hardest times. But after it had, I didn't want him to leave again. That butterfly was a gift from God that helped me to heal more every day. And now, I grow to love it more and more every day. I feared that it would leave me after all I was going through was over. I worried because I didn't really need it anymore, but I still loved it. I still wanted it. But then I realized that I will always need it. Because I will always love it.

Forever yours,
           

(Spring 2010)

It seems, my Love, that your fears were in vain.