Eight (The Epilogue)
Revival On Your Knees
New Life often springs up out of the ashes of the old. This can constantly be seen in the natural world all around us. Just like the butterflies on Butterfly Island we are all on a journey through Life. There is a beginning, a middle and eventually an ending. What is important is how we live in the intervening years. However, the quality of our lives should not be measured by so much as what we have achieved but more essentially by what we have had to overcome to achieve. This is surely the essence of 'The Butterfly Island Story '.
All of us want to be the very best that we can be and to make our lives count for something. However, as we look closely at the life cycle of the butterfly one thing becomes clear: That something must die before something else can live. Therefore, this last song encourages us to consider carefully the cost of seeing true Revival (new growth or re-birth) in our own lives, relationships and circumstances. What price are we prepared to pay to see change and what sacrifices do we need to make to turn our hopes and dreams into reality? For some, like Nancy and her Lover it will demand a complete turn around. Maybe for others it may simply involve slow but sure radical change. Perhaps for a few, the cost will be considered too great, and the prospect of real change at the present time just a far distant dream. However, I hope that this story will in time help us all begin to realise that real miracles can and still do happen all around us if we would only just open our eyes and start to believe. Perhaps only then will we begin to rise above the base mediocrity that surrounds and defines daily living and start learning to swim, persevering against the strong currents that constantly threaten to drag down and engulf all those who would venture out into the deep waters which flow towards 'Butterfly Island' - a beautiful place which lies somewhere out there on a distant horizon where the sun always shines ...
(Paul Lane © June 2000)
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Revival On Your Knees
New Life often springs up out of the ashes of the old. This can constantly be seen in the natural world all around us. Just like the butterflies on Butterfly Island we are all on a journey through Life. There is a beginning, a middle and eventually an ending. What is important is how we live in the intervening years. However, the quality of our lives should not be measured by so much as what we have achieved but more essentially by what we have had to overcome to achieve. This is surely the essence of 'The Butterfly Island Story '. All of us want to be the very best that we can be and to make our lives count for something. However, as we look closely at the life cycle of the butterfly one thing becomes clear: That something must die before something else can live. Therefore, this last song encourages us to consider carefully the cost of seeing true Revival (new growth or re-birth) in our own lives, relationships and circumstances. What price are we prepared to pay to see change and what sacrifices do we need to make to turn our hopes and dreams into reality? For some, like Nancy and her Lover it will demand a complete turn around. Maybe for others it may simply involve slow but sure radical change. Perhaps for a few, the cost will be considered too great, and the prospect of real change at the present time just a far distant dream. However, I hope that this story will in time help us all begin to realise that real miracles can and still do happen all around us if we would only just open our eyes and start to believe. Perhaps only then will we begin to rise above the base mediocrity that surrounds and defines daily living and start learning to swim, persevering against the strong currents that constantly threaten to drag down and engulf all those who would venture out into the deep waters which flow towards 'Butterfly Island' - a beautiful place which lies somewhere out there on a distant horizon where the sun always shines ...
(Paul Lane © June 2000)
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