A New Leaf 🍃

Image by Ian Lindsay from Pixabay

I wonder….

Does the caterpillar labor to turn over a new leaf?

Does the challenge seem insurmountable as she approaches the peak?

Such a small figure

With such a big feat

What a lot to chew on

She still has much soul food to eat.

Does she work herself into a tizzy?

Falling flat, becoming dizzy?

When it’s time for another colossal change?

Spinning threads, filled with dread, as her second womb is arranged?

Does the isolation make her insane?

Or is there warmth in being embalmed that makes her feel safe?

I wonder if she realises she’s becoming something new?

She’s been born again, bidding everything she knew adieu

Her wings prepared to flutter from bloom to beauteus bloom

Does she pensively wrestle with this path prepared anew?

And when she finally spreads her wings is there a peace unlike before?

No longer bound to the ground, silently crawling the forest floor

When she rises, has her strength been miraculously revived?

Is endurance a close companion?

Upon her wings, will praise abide?

Tina

January 1, 2026

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Born Again to Turn Over a New Leaf 🍃

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:2 ESV