As I was working on my sermon this past week I toyed with the idea of bringing a live butterfly along with me to church this morning so I could let it go right about now, as an attention getter. I decided against doing that, however, because I was afraid it would get your attention so well that I might never get it back again. I had visions of all of you sitting out there spending the rest of the service distracted as you followed the butterfly around, your heads bobbing up and down after it. So I brought along the next best thing instead, a pinned butterfly. It’s much easier to control.

This is a beautiful butterfly, isn’t it? By and large, people don’t like bugs very well, but almost everybody makes an exception for butterflies because they are so beautiful. As you all know, a butterfly…