Comments on: Hymn of Promise

By: carol

carol — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:41:06 +0000

Catherine, I think you have the right attitude. “So what if it’s not scientifically correct.” The meaning and symbolism is comforting and inspiring. I am sorry for the loss of your father.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:47:30 +0000

Please don’t ruin the beauty of this song for the rest of us. This will be sung at my father’s funeral today. So what if it’s not scientifically correct. The meaning of the rest of the song is so comforting. I refuse to get hung up in details. I doubt that God will either. (I can appreciate your thinking, though . . . God made us all different. Take care)

By: carol

carol — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:43:57 +0000

Scientifically, a butterfly coming from a “cocoon” is incorrect. However, the cocoon/butterfly relationship is firmly ingrained in literature and general public knowledge. I doubt anyone asking for authors to be correct will change it. Dom Deluis wrote a book about a butterfly emerging from a cocoon… there was songs, poems… Oh well.

By: Ruth Rougeux

Ruth Rougeux — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:00:13 +0000

What about the book the very hungry caterpillar who turned into a beautiful butterfly. He build a small house,called a cocoon, around himself. We are God’s children and one day will be set free

By: carol

carol — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:38:09 +0000

I think you missed my point. The song is beautiful and I understand the symbolism in it - the metaphors. I am distracted, however, by the incorrect reference to a butterfly coming from a cocoon. A butterfly comes from a chrysalis. A moth comes from a cocoon. A cocoon is formed from spun thread. A chrysalis is formed when the butterfly caterpillar sheds its skin for the final time, and a hardened outer covering forms to cover the changing pupa inside. The hymn is beautiful. I just wish that the writer had taken the time to make sure his/her metaphors were correct. Butterflies DON’T come from cocoons.

By: Ruth Rougeux

Ruth Rougeux — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:44:22 +0000

Hi,
Stop and think about the butterfly when it forms it is an ugly thing but when it leaves the cocoon it is a beautiful butterfly. I have a reference that it means here on earth is not the greatest but when we leave we are set free and it will be a beautiful, as the butterfly. I first heard this song at my nephews furneral. Which I know by this song he is going to be with the Lord. Wouldn’t change anything about it. IT IS JUST BEAUTIFUL

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:44:14 +0000

I too love this song, and, as a science teacher, cringe at the cocoon reference. I’ve even tuned out of a service to mentally compose alternative words to fit the science, but I haven’t come up with satisfactory results yet!