Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

“For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has become His counselor?”
 “Or who has first given to Him
And it shall be repaid to him?”

For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

~Romans 11:33-36

The moment when a butterfly emerges from a chrysalis displays the power and wisdom of the Lord in a very unique way that is unlike any other. After literal hours of preparation, it only takes about 2 minutes for the new butterfly to emerge. Thirty to forty minutes later, the butterfly’s wings are fully expanded. It is ready to take its first flight only a few hours later.

This miraculous transformation is the magnificent finale to the change the Lord works inside the chrysalis when He transforms a caterpillar—essentially a worm whose only job is to eat constantly for almost 2 weeks—into a fully-functioning butterfly that has all the needed equipment to fly, pollinate, reproduce, and even migrate up to 3,000 miles. He placed special parts called imaginal disks inside the caterpillar, which eventually become the parts of the grown butterfly inside the chrysalis over the course of about 10 days.

To learn more about monarch butterflies and the incredible journey they make during migration, tune in on November 26, 2024 to Episode 52 of Eryn Lynum’s Nat Theo podcast, where Eryn and Kayla dig deeper into questions such as:

–Why do monarch migrate?
–How do they navigate
–Which generations of monarch butterflies actually make the journey?

Kayla also shares one of her favorite memories at the conclusion of the podcast, recalling her first experience raising butterflies around the age of 6.