Butterfly Blessings

Looks are often deceiving- this looks like the perfect photo opportunity ... a beautiful butterfly sipping the nectar from deep inside a fuchsia pink Mandevilla bloom. Instead it's a dead butterfly, stuck inside the bloom! So stuck, that when the bloom dies several days later and falls from the vine; the dead butterfly remains firmly trapped inside the bloom. A perfect specimen of the ill fated butterfly, ends up on the ground long after the pink color fades from the flower. The bloom decomposes into the surrounding dirt and the butterfly still retains its original beauty. You are probably thinking, what a blessing for me to witness God's creative handy work in such a unique way... and I AGREE! However, it's a double blessing because the very same thing happened to another butterfly just a few days before this and I didn't get a picture of it. So what happened to the butterfly... did it get stuck and die? Did it suffocate? Was it just time for it to die and it happened to be in the flower when death knocked at it's door? Was their a spider hiding inside, waiting on it's prey and slowly sucked the life out of the butterfly? I have no idea but it reinforces a concept my Dad taught me... "keep your eyes peeled" or you may miss the magnitude of God's perfect plan for every living creature and that is a BLESSING indeed!