Butterfly

When you love someone so much whether it's your friends, or family it's easy to give into fear, fear that they will judge you, or fear that you'll stumble and they'll completely abandon you at all costs, then it's like a butterfly...if you've ever held one you try to keep it in your hands for as long as possible and finally you have to just open your hands and watch it fly away, the same goes for the ones you love, you can teach them and learn from them, but eventually you have to open up your hands and watch them rise...You can still teach them, and learn from them, but opening up your hands to watch them rise just brings better understanding of each other and room to grow closer.

I have learned that true beauty comes from God, that "light" he has placed within us! If that light isn't shining then we are kind of like a horse, the most beautiful ones are the wild ones that run unbridled and the ones that don't slowly lose their spirits. A while ago a friend and I were having a late lunch at Panera just talking and this is what randomly came out of her mouth. She told me that she thinks of me kind of like a butterfly because when she first met me I was kind of like that caterpillar because I was SO shy that I was deathly afraid to come up to her and just say even a simple hello, and I've been through alot in only 19 years of life, and now I was finally in the cacoon, and that she couldn't wait to see what I'd be like when I finally broke out of the cacoon and became a beautiful butterfly. I have taken that to heart...I don't know why but it makes me feel that warm loved feeling inside like we all do during the holidays when we watch all of the holiday movies with happy endings. God and the people we love give us courage to be all that we can and it's up to us to choose to take it to heart or not...if you finally let that butterfly rise to the sun, their hearts lead them back to you when they're ready to land again.

When you see someone you love hurting it's hard to hide that your eyes have been constantly streaming with tears, and it's hard not to let the hurt overtake you. But just as I've said before you have to open up your hands and let them rise, otherwise they'll never know what it's like to fly. We experience everything for a reason, and I believe our experiences make our hearts stronger! How is they're heart supposed to grow stronger if you don't open your hands to watch them rise?

So encourage the people you love. Love them, teach them, cry with them, be that person, open your hands and just watch them become that beautiful butterfly that flies abandondly into the sun, they will be led back to you when they're ready to land. Help them to become beautiful butterflies!
Shoutouts....if you are in my life right now, I don't care if you think you don't matter...you do, more than you know! I love you truely!
-Christianna Denise
p.s. here's the song lyrics!!!



When you love someone so deeply
They become your life
It's easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside
Blindly I imagined I could
Keep you under glass
Now I understand to hold you
I must open up my hands and watch you rise
Chorus

Spread you wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly (Oooh)
Fly abandonedly into the sun
If you should return to me
We truly were meant to be, so spread your wings and fly
Butterfly
Verse 2

I have learned that beauty
Has to flourish in the light
Wild horses run unbridled
Or their spirit dies
You have given me the courage
To be all that I can
And I truly feel your heart will
Lead you back to me when you're
Ready to land
Chorus

Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly (Oooh)
Fly abandonedly into the sun
If you should return to me, we truly were meant to be
So spread your wings and fly (spread your wings and fly)
Butterfly (butterfly)
Bridge

I can't pretend these tears
Aren't overflowing steadily
I can't prevent this hurt from
Almost overtaking me
But I will stand and say goodbye (stand and say goodbye)
For you'll never be mine
Until you know the way it feels to fly
Chorus

Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly (Oooh)
Fly abandonedly into the sun (fly to the sun)
If you should return to me (I will know you're mine)
We truly were meant to be (spread your wings and fly)
So spread your wings and fly
Butterfly (my butterfly)
Chorus

Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly
Fly abandonedly into the sun
If you should return to me
We truly were meant to be (you and I)
So spread your wings and fly (spread your wings and fly)
Butterfly
So flutter through the sky
Butterfly
Fly
Spread your wings and fly
Butterfly.