How are you enjoying the bees? I have found another chart which might help you.
Today just a few days after we celebrated Easter Sunday let us look and think about butterflies. They are beautiful and I have seen lots this year including the Orange spot and two Blue.
Butterflies have long been symbols of resurrection changing from a fat caterpillar into a chrysalis and then eventually into a beautiful butterfly.
To help us in our learning about these beautiful and invaluable creatures you can find more information and even share your findings on these websites.
https://butterfly-conservation.org/our-work/recording-and-monitoring/wider-countryside-butterfly-survey - a great website if you want to partake in the butterfly survey
https://www.bigbutterflycount.org/ - a chart and app to help you record butterfly sightings
The Butterfly: A Symbol of Easter Resurrection
The metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly is a symbol of resurrection. During the process of transformation, the chrysalis experiences darkness and constriction inside the cocoon. Could this be paralleled to Jesus in the tomb? A struggle through a tiny opening forces fluid from the body of the butterfly so that it will be free and able to fly at the right time. We too are like a chrysalis waiting in endless darkness says Sister Betty Lou Knox. Easter is about hope that is willing to wait in the darkness while it trusts in transformation.
The Easter Challenge: Joyce Rupp ( an extract)
Every year cocoons give us their treasures, And every year the dull and dead in us meets our Easter challenge: to be open to the unexpected, to believe beyond our security, to welcome God in every form, And trust in our own greening.
Our own Philip Morris has sent an extract of a sermon to me and I thought we would all like to read it for ourselves and certainly the glazed screen in The Priory at Ewenny is most beautiful and worthy of a visit if you haven't seen it yet. It can be a local trip out when we can freely visit places and the church will be open. You can enjoy a visit to Ewenny pottery and a coffee in the cafe there or at the garden centre, just down the road.
At the moment I cannot find a way to share this, so I have asked Philip if he can help. I will upload if I can later.
Don't forget the new quiz and last week's answers are up from 6:00 pm tonight. How did you get on? Enjoy this week's new challenge!