What Goes Around

A Story Charlie had a pet caterpillar.  He loved to watch it crawl around.  He was looking forward to seeing it transform into a beautiful butterfly.  He wondered what color it would be.  Finally the caterpillar started making his cocoon.  Charlie checked on it every day to see if the butterfly was ready to come out.  The day finally came when Charlie saw the butterfly inside start to find his way out.  Charlie could see some blue color on it's wing.  He knew it would be beautiful. As Charlie watched the butterfly, he noticed it was struggling.  He knew this was part of the development of the butterfly, but it seemed it was starting to die in it's struggle.  So Charlie decided to help it just a tiny bit.  That gave the butterfly the encouragement to continue struggling for freedom and it was able to escape the cocoon.  Charlie felt like a hero. The butterfly started walking, or crawling on the branch.  It was stretc...

Tonight is Diwali.  A few nights ago was Halloween.  I started to think about these holidays.  We don't celebrate Halloween, mostly because we are in India and there is no Halloween here.  I guess we kind of celebrate Diwali.  At least we enjoy the fireworks that others are setting off.  And we let Micah go to some friends house to light fireworks. One year we were in America during Halloween and Micah dressed up in some old stuff we had and went to two doors.  One wasn't home and one was his grandparents.  He wasn't too impressed with the whole thing. I think it is pretty obvious why we don't celebrate Diwali, because it is a Hindu festival and we are Christians.  The real part of the holiday is lighting lights around your house to invite Laxmi in to bring you good luck.  And the firecrackers are to scare of evil.  We don't want any part in inviting Laxmi into our house and I doubt evil is scared by firecrackers. The questio...