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Autumn Butterfly

Tap for a poem about a miracle I saw yesterday.

on November fourth

he came to encourage us

after the hard freeze

In memory of Coach K.

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By davidsdailydose

I'm just a regular guy who was
tempted to lose all hope but did not. It was God who made the difference.

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Coach K is my head principal’s father. He was a star quarterback who became a coach and eventually a superintendent of a public school district. He passed away on November 4, some years ago.
Yesterday, the administration team and I were exchanging encouraging messages, after a particularly hard week, when I looked out the window and saw a butterfly on the honeysuckle. Daily low temperatures here have already dropped far below freezing, so, I took the butterfly’s presence to be both message and miracle. My principal then told me this was the anniversary of her dad’s death.
Thank you for asking for the back story. God Bless!

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Thank you, Betty. Yes it was! It’s amazing, even miraculous, to see a butterfly 🦋 after morning lows have already dropped well below freezing. Yesterday afternoon was fairly warm, and there it came! I ran outside to hopefully get a photo, but the butterfly was gone. Next thing I knew, he came back, and I snapped the photo!

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