July 1st as we entered into Palliative Care with our darling Isabel, I quietly spoke with her about how her body is a cocoon and her spirit a fully formed butterfly... that the struggle out of the cocoon is what strengthens the wings. Thirty-five days later, as she breathed her last, a butterfly fluttered away from her window on the third floor.
Isabel’s name in Hebrew is Elisheva which means “my God” and “seven.” Isabel was born during the feast of weeks (seven cycles of seven days) and I heard God speak about His plan of love concerning her at the Jubilee underpass (seven cycles of seven years). Today is Shavuot, the completion of seven cycles of seven weeks, and look at this butterfly landing on us and blessing us with affirmation today!! Never in my life has a butterfly landed on me (and the kids), let alone do it over and over again over the course of two hours!
