At a school-fair garden stall, I asked for a plant which would produce orange flowers.
I took it home, dug it into a sunny place where I nurtured it while waiting for buds to
appear. They were so unattractive, with no sign of orange, but as the flowers opened,
I marvelled at their design, and discovered I had a swan plant. Monarch butterflies laid
their eggs on the swan plant leaves, and caterpillars later hatched and fed.

Then each spent time in a green pendant chrysalis spotted with gold, from which they
eventually emerged transformed into Monarch butterflies with beautiful orange wings.
How often we long for something and plead with God to grant our request! But in His
wisdom, and to our delight, our Father gives us something far better.