Metamorphosis

Mosquitoes will attack you like a battalion of soldiers in my home in Geliga area if you ever get out of the house. Most of them are the striped body Aedes type and they are the main carrier for the Dengue fever virus. Cannot understand where do they come from and the area is relatively clean and not near to any swampy land. They probably find the shady mango tree in my house too cozy to gather there as their home. So I told Azman to help in chopping down some of the branches with dense leaves so as to allow more sunlight to penetrate and hopefully they will dislike the place which might have become too bright for them now.

These mosquitoes remind me of the ugly larvae that wriggle in the water containers which I used to rear my fighting fishes. Eating rotten leaves as their food and subsequently growing in stages and emerging as flying creatures which are phyiscally different in appearance and even have a total different kind of diet, the blood of the humans or animals!

The caterpillars are equally ugly creatures in the eyes of the humans but when it is time for them to grow themselves inside a cocoon, another stage of their life in which the metamorphosis process begins to take place, they stay motionless for a long time and appear almost as good as dead! When the process is completed, they successfully change themselves and stretch their wings into beautiful butterflies that fly around flowers and feed on honey!  Wow, what a change and what a creation!

Humans too go through certain degree of metamorphosis, you see how little ugly ducklings turn into attractive young ladies when they reach the age of 17-18? And how they get married, grow old after having children and eventually buried to the ground? But we do not know in details how that metamorphosis will continue to take place after the burial ceremony is over and the maggots feed on the remains. God has the power to turn larvae into mosquitoes and caterpillars into butterflies, and I am sure He has the power to transform the ugly us into a different beautiful beings too!

The nature has revealed a lot of clues about God's creation. We have to be observant in order to see the fine part and the implication of it. We always take those little things for granted or just ignore them totally because we are busy all the time and more obsessed with all the materialistic things on this world. We pray that God always give us the wisdom for us to discern and to read His messages conveyed to us even though they are just simple clues and hints that exist in the nature around us.