Signs and Symbols
Photo (c) 2016 Rev. Linda M. Rhinehart Neas Long before her death, my mother told me that the yellow butterfly was her sign or symbol. She said, "When you see a yellow butterfly, it will be me." After her death, a yellow butterfly has visited me often. The serendipity of these sightings is often so poignant as to bring me to tears. Skeptics, on the other hand, tell us that we see signs and symbols because we want to see them. They say that our need to have some kind of proof causes us to find an answer where there really isn't one. This may be, however, there are times when things happen, when signs appear where the variables are simply too high to brush off as matter of fact. In my life, I have found signs and symbols that could not be reasoned away on multiple occasions. Allow me to give you an example of the most recent event. My daughter and family were on a river in Maine with her husband's sister and her family. The boys were playing by the r