Why Butterfly Music?
Why “Butterfly Music”? This is a question I’m often asked so I’d like to explain. As our daughter Belinda was lying in her hospital bed in February 2000, someone gave her a butterfly to hang over her bed. Within days, the netting above her head was filled with butterflies of all sizes and colours. For Belinda, the butterfly was a powerful image, an image of transformation from one life to another. As her body was failing, her spirit soared and touched many in the days and months before her death on February 16th, 2000. In the days and weeks that followed, our garden at home was graced by many visits from butterflies. As Christians, the butterfly offers that powerful image of new life. As teachers we often use the caterpillar’s transformation into a butterfly to teach that concept. Jesus was placed in a tomb that could not hold him, and he emerged to the brightest of new lives, just as the butterfly emerges from the chrysalis. So when it came time to choose a name for our business, my w