God reminds us daily that He and our daughter are always with us. Even though our daughter is in heaven, she is as close to us as Jesus. He connects us all through faith.
I usually don’t pay much attention to butterflies unless they are in my nervous stomach. This day was different, as I prepared to receive friends and family at the funeral home for Kristen’s visitation. Our hairdresser had offered to highlight my hair that day rather than wait for my scheduled appointment later in June. She wanted to do something out of her love for Kristen — this was how she felt she could help.
When I returned home, our daughter’s biological sister was sitting on the back porch. She had just come in from out of town.
As I got out of the car to go inside, I stopped to speak to her, and an orange butterfly kept circling my head so closely I couldn’t focus my eyes on it. It looped around my head again and again, then flew up and around our daughter’s bedroom window. It immediately flew back to go another lap around my head. She laughed and said, “It’s Kristen! I think she likes your hair!”
Maybe God was using part of nature to let us feel His love surround us in our time of loss… I could imagine Kristen saying, “I love you, Mom, and your hair looks nice too!”
“For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.” (Romans 1:20)
God shows Himself to us every day. We just have to watch and listen.
How are you seeing God move?
This moment came on the day of Kristen’s visitation.
Read the fuller story in Because She Believed – A Story of Faith and Hope.
