thank you Ulrike. I love photographing butterflies & your lift gave me just the right spiritual perspective for these lovely creatures.

Thank you for sharing that beautiful thought-picture of a butterfly -- always intact, perfect, unique, and untouched by material circumstances.

Gutten Morgen

Merci beaucoup for this lovely message so true; I enjoy this idea of drawing from an original, and redrawing until we are satisfied with it; God has made each of His ideas perfect reflection and all we have to do is start from this perfect image, man perfect expression of Love, Spirit, Soul, Mind, Truth, Principle, Omnipotent, Omnipresent. His idea is always reflecting harmony, beauty, completness, abundance, joy, intelligence....

Thank you so much again

Anne

What a great analogy. Thanks, Ulrike

A very sweet idea - our day can be "artful" in Love's presence. Happy drawing!

A really wonderful analogy. Simple, easy to understand and visualise,and so true.Thank you Ulrike.

Thank you Ulrike for that inspiring lift on butterfly wings, Yes, "we are all complete, indestructible and eternal". "Each day, complete, with joy is blessed,
God keepeth him [and all of us] in perfect peace." (Christian Science Hymnal #93)

Thank you for this Lift, Ulrike. It's a challenge, isn't it? Even when we look at a beautiful butterfly, bird, animal, insect, we see how we see them in thought! No matter how carefully we try to commit the details to thought, when we are faced with the real thing, they are quite different. Their flight patterns are quite different also! We have over 600 different butterflies in this vast State of Queensland, so it is by holding to the spiritual truth of every idea, that we see more clearly with the inward - spiritual - eye.
There is another wonderful thing about looking, because in the past I have quite often seen something I have never seen before, and recognized and been aware of God telling me what it is! I've always given heartfelt thanks for that, because certainly it is God Who recognizes His own ideas, and He clearly loves each one very much. Well, - infinitely!

Thank you Ulrike for the clear analogy to the substance of ideas!
It helps to live the art and beauty of Christian Science every day. It also describes the way of idea-based art. Perfect! Thanks again

Beautiful insect, beautiful lift thank you Ulrike

Thank you for this Lift, Ulrike. It's a challenge, isn't it? No matter how hard we try to memorize a butterfly exactly, when we look back to check, it's quite different. We have over 600 butterflies in this vast State of Queensland, and so many are very similar to moths! But it's interesting because I've often seen an insect, bird, animal or butterfly, and God has identified it for me. We do have to keep in mind they are spiritual ideas, and God is clearly well pleased with their creation. That original idea can never be altered or lose its spiritual nature.

Lovely thought!

Thinking about this analogy, the butterfly can lift off the earth and view things from above, and them home in on a beautiful flower or colour that naturally attracts it. We are then drawn to this beautiful creature and the beautiful flower or colour, and can enjoy and benefit from the activity of the butterfly.

As is a butterfly, we are also spiritual ideas, but we are actually the image and likeness of the one Creator, God, and reflect His Mind. As spiritual ideas, we can lift off from the earthly picture into the spiritual atmosphere of divine Love, and can view everything from this perspective. This view transcends the mortal erroneous picture, and we can be attracted to, and home in to the beautiful idea of God, just where there seems to be something unlike Him and His beautiful manifestation. When we do this, and healing results, it draws attention to the real and eternal Truth of God and man, forever in God's likeness and His omnipotent loving care.

I didn't know about the different flight patterns mentioned by Anonymous (No. 8), but this also can illustrate all the different ways each of us has to glorify God - our uniqueness.

Many thanks for this beautiful idea.

Oh thank you so much, Ulrike, for this lovely angel message re-Minding us that we are God's spiritual transparencies, journeying ever upward like the butterfly! There is such happy work to be done!

Thank you!
When in a cocoon of material darkness, a butterfly cannot use its wings. But it emerges eventually from its prison and sees a beautiful world, and adds its beauty to it.

We are flawless ideas in the Mind that is God. Now that's a holy thought. Ulrike, thank you.

Hi Ulrike,
I was drawn to the basic similarity of your lift with Marta’s yesterday explaining that fundamentally nothing material is permanent.

A practitioner I worked with many years ago was helping me improve my self-concept and used the phrase the “Metamorphosis of Michael”. I always thought of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and considered that renovation was rather permanent.

But now I recognize that change was just another phase in the spiritualization of self towards the true image and likeness of God. Even though the butterfly is an improvement over the caterpillar, is has limited aerodynamic properties and is insufficient for our entire journey. Yet, any upward material transition in thought or being is progress and deserving of praise and encouragement. Color or content are shallow reflections of the beauty still in store for us.

How appropriate that we can rejoice in our progress and still expect this growth to be continuous. Sure we all want to be the best butterfly we can be, but how exciting to know it is just another step in our upward soaring flight. Higher and higher we ascend on paper wings looking down in amazement and wonder at the earth unfolding below us, until we eventually learn to stop looking down on matter and upward to heaven, our true home.

Do don’t drive a car just looking in the rearview mirror to see where we’ve been, but always ahead to where we wish to go.

Thank you for this change in attitude and altitude.

Thank you for that lovely Lift. Yes, butterflies are beautiful ideas of God and we can rise above the material thoughts and express beautiful and loving thoughts to every one we meet.

Thank you Ulrike,

flawless each one of us

Thank you for this view.

Thank you so much, Ulrike, for this wonderful and very interesting message!
Thanks for all inspirational comments and have a blessed day!

Marta Greenwoods Lecture "God's Law of Abundance in a Divine Economy" at www.christianscience.com/lectures/lecture-video uses a caterpillar and a butterfly in her analogy. A perfect partner for Ulrike's lift!! What amazing uplifts these all are! Thank you!

Awesome analogy Ulrike. Great way to move forward with a new day. Thank you!

Loving butterflies, as I do, I feel that today's Daily Lift was made for me. Thank you so much. Much love, Lorrie

Flawless in the mind of God!What a simply exquisite thought so like a butterfly.Thak you.

Thanks so much for this inspired analogy!

Christ comes repeating himself! No matter how many times we hear these analogies, they are fresh and re-fresh us! They never get stale.

Thank you!

Thanks so much for the analogy. I have a lot of drawing and re-drawing to do to perfect my image.

Thanks for the reminder that our method of viewing the world around us is ever changeable, as our perception of that world is also. When we see the world around us; through the eyes of perfect divine reflection, we are able to paint the prefect divine image of things, as God creates All. Thanks for the reminder.

That was a great perspective on how to look at man and God. Thank you!

I just loved today's lift... thank you. As an owner of a small business.. our logo has always been a butterfly. We just asked a designer to renew our logo... for a fresh look.. and she came back with a butterfly as well (without any knowledge of our previous design) This, coupled with today's beautiful lift, is a reminder that our spiritual oneness is always intact... never to be taken away or destroyed. Just like the beautiful image of a butterfly from the Divine Mind itself. Much gratitude for this humbling reminder of Christ's love.

Thank you, Ulrike, for the beautiful analogy!

A joke: Two caterpillars are talking when a beautiful butterfly flies over. One caterpillar says to the other caterpillar: "You'll never get me up in one of those things." :Our true spiritual being is already an actuality, temporarily hidden within the mistaken belief of mortality. Furthermore, it is silly to think that the freedom from earthbound limitation is anything but beautiful.

Thank you, Ulrike.
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thanks for the free idea

Oh, how I can relate to this! Being an artist who has painted butterflies, often a particular one more than once, to express a different aspect or give it a new interpretation, I know that my model, the original butterfly (or flower or person that I paint multiple times) does not change. This will be a beautiful reminder of God's perfect idea of man that does not change, no matter how someone may perceive him/her.
Thank you, Ulrike!

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tell's you it's going to be a butterfly.-----Buckminster Fuller. Just beautiful.

Wonderful! Such a perfect analogy and such an amazing way to start the day! Thank you for this beautiful lift!

Okay, you wrote this "Lift" for me, right?

Lovely lift today. Everyone go in peace.

Ulrike, yes, just like this which I read in a "Weekly Bible Lesson" to-day! "Truth makes a new creature, in whom old things pass away and "all things are become new." from "Footsteps of Truth", "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

<strong>Moderator's note:</strong>
For more information about the "Weekly Bible Lesson," please visit http://www.spirituality.com/bible-lesson/about.jhtml.

Isn't it interesting that so many of us think this lift was meant especially for us. That's a testimony in itself. Before I tuned into this "Lift" this morning, I was praying with the idea of excellence. And do you know what excell means? To raise oneself.
"God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis." Hello, lovely butterfly.

<strong>Moderator's note:</strong>
Quote is from <em>Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures</em> by Mary Baker Eddy, Pg. 258, line 13.

"God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis."

Thank you Uli for such a clear analogy to our perfect being, always sustained by God!

The ideal butterfly is a spiritual butterfly and is the correct picture. Just as the spiritual butterfly the spiritual man is perfect in the idea of God's Divine Mind. Not a mortal picture, but a picture of flying without wings and communicating ideas all around. Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health:
"Angels are not etherealized human beings, evolving animal qualities in their wings; but they are celestial visitants, flying on spiritual, not material, pinions. Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love, no matter what their individualism may be." S&amp;H 298:25
"He, who understands in a sufficient degree the Principle of Mind-healing, points out to his student error as well as truth, the wrong as well as the right practice. Love for God and man is the true incentive in both healing and teaching. Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. Love is priestess at the altar of Truth. Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept. Patience must 'have her perfect work.'" S&amp;H 454:14

Perfect. Merci beaucoup!

Thanks for the analogy of the butterfly. I can also use it to see clearly the perfect man of God's creating. Thank you all for your contributions; and thanks to the producer for another inspiring week.

Danke schon, Ulrike! A couple of weeks ago I saw a beautiful aqua and brown butterfly in my front yard on the ground. I ran into the house to get my camera, and it was still there waiting for me when I returned. Now I have a permanent picture of this beautiful creature which is an inspiring image. I looked in a book of butterflies of the world, and could not find it--perhaps my butterfly is a unique new species, just like all of us, unique, special, beautiful, with a spiritual, perfect identity!

When I think about drawing and painting of butterfly, I realised that when artist draws and finishes their paintings and displays them for the public to admire, nobody ever adds or takes away anything from the finished product of an artist, so man created and made in the image and likeness of God is a finished and complete product from God, so neither sickness nor sin or death can be part of that completeness.Nothing can add or separate us from the Love of God.
Thanks for that wonderful analogy, thats what we all need today

What a wonderful Lift that gives me the right direction in my attitude towards those whom I have been seeing a less than lovely. Their image is perfect. My vision of each one must be no different from the original. God is aware only of perfecfion and goodness. That is all there is.

So-o-o beautiful and precious this expression of love you have shared with us. I'm on "upward wing" with it!

The idea is complete .....eternal...
Always look back at the original...
How divine....how uplifting...
Thank you !

Thank you, Ulrike.

Thank you for this fresh analogy, very delightful, especially as I am taking a drawing class to hone my skills and am praying to hone my right to "see every man clearly." Thank you, too, to those who commented. Many of the comments I scanned shared more "lift."

Thank you Ulrike, for this interesting analogy to help us get a better understanding of how to get a more correct view of our true, untouched spiritual selves. More than anything, it'll help strengthen my patience when one or more efforts to correct some error in health, supply, home, work, or other problem seem to not reach what they should be in healing. It would take me repeated times to correct my drawing of a butterfly to get it to exactly look like the original. I've got enough “talent” to manage a fairly good drawing that would immediately let anyone know what I was drawing, but a near image isn't the true, perfect image, and leaves room for much improvement. When Jesus healed the blind man, and the 1st try only let him see “men as trees walking” (Matt. 8) Jesus taught us that wasn't good enough. Only perfection is good enough. I've said before that Jesus didn't need 2 tries, but we did, for only by that example do we know that the commonly called “miracles” he did were not just impressive improvements, but full restoration to perfection. I may be satisfied with a recognizable drawing of a butterfly, but in seeing myself and others, I must never stop short of perfection, as the Father, divine Mind holds me.

...... each one flawless in Mind, God. So comforting to feel assured that this is true! Thank you!

Thank you, Ulrike... vielen Dank... for this beautiful idea!

I was admiring a beautiful butterfly this morning. It's effortless and free flight, without a trace of hurry, impressed me. It reminded me to slow down and let the sweet savours in life bring me joy. What greater savour than to see our fellow man in his true identity. How to do it? Let the Christ-Love supply its own beautiful images! Let the correction begin!

Thank you, Ulrike and team DL.

Right to the point...an analogy that is practical and useful. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for the lovely thought-pictures, Ulrike. Butterflies are a great inspiration.

I was petsitting for a friend recently, and she showed me her butterfly "cage" (a cylinder with fine netting on the sides and a clear plastic top) where she was allowing the caterpillars to eat leaves in peace, free from wasps. They would then climb to the top of the cage, change into cocoons, and metamorphosize into butterfies. What a thrill to go out to her porch one day and find a butterfly hovering near the top, patiently waiting to be set free. As I unzipped and flipped back the top, he emerged ever so gently* and unhurriedly floated away, ascending gradually until he disappeared from view.

His upward journey reminds me of what #16 Michael and #54 Katy say so eloquently. And in truth, this butterfly, like every other, is a spiritual idea, communicating holy thoughts, as #41 Douglas points out in his comments and citations about angels.

*see Science and Health, page 485, where Mrs. Eddy writes, "Emerge gently from matter into Spirit. Think not to thwart the spiritual ultimate of all things, but come naturally into Spirit through better health and morals and as the result of spiritual growth."

Thank you Ulrike --
A beautiful image of artist-encounter-with-butterfly
and what has to happen when I or anyone must keep looking at the model -- to draw the more perfect picture in art, in mind, in life.

Sweet!! Reminds me of the words in S&amp;H page 261.... "Keep thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to the occupancy of your thoughts".

Just beautiful, Ulrike, thank you for remind me to turn away from my imperfect view and keep the eye on the original: God.
And thank you #41, Douglas Buettner for your thought, I like to let you know that you just sent me a wonderful healing message and I am infinitely grateful!

ESPAÑOL
Simplemente hermoso, Ulrike, gracias por recordarme que debo cambiar mi punto de vista imperfecto y mantener el ojo en el original: Dios.
Y gracias # 41, Douglas Buettner por tu pensamiento, me gustaría hacerte saber que acabas de me enviarme un mensaje de curación maravilloso y estoy infinitamente agradecida!

Thank you Ulrikke, simply thank you so much for this fine idea!

This is a perfect analogy... very, very helpful! Thank you.

Dear Ulrike,

Thank you for being a wonderful team player for the cause of Christian Science. God gave you the idea about the butterfly. And then God gave #20 the idea about sharing the lecture of Marta's about butterflies. I took the bait and listened to it, as I love butterflies. I think of myself as one as I love to flit around and just bless as many people as God gives me. Just like a butterfly does with flowers.

But this lecture, expanded my spiritual view as I didnt ever think of Transformation as everyday. I thought transfiguration as the one time experience that Jesus had with Peter, James and John on the mountain. But with a change of material thinking, it can happen, just like a butterfly, a higher, spiritual view.

What a blessing it was today, as my friend was upset and hung up on me. But I stayed high in thought- like a butterfly. And I know she was praying for a solution for our other friend. And then my husband suggested another friend to solve the situation. How great God is. And my friend, that was seeming distraught, she got peaceful. All because we were all trying to be butterfly thinkers.

Thank you for listening so well to God.