Hello Family! I have watched in the shadows, but danced in the Light! Allow me to introduce myself- Lady Mariposa Immortale! I am a child of the Light and a servant of Him as well. I fellowship with the Spirit of Christ with abandon. Nothing this world has to offer could contain me hear. Oh, I once was here, in this realm. I lived in the dark. I thought it my friend, till betrayal. No, not betrayal just of me, but of everything I loved. Tainted. Corrupted. Dead. I too, I have died a fleshly death, yet now it is that I truly live. I breathe. I dance. From ashes to beauty, death to life, darkness to light...transformation. Mariposa Immortale, Immortal Butterfly, one of the glitter goth but so much more- a child of the Glory of God. A worm transformed, it is I, God's butterfly, a chosen one. Delicate yet beautiful, bejewelled with the image of Christ. He has taught me to soar. Life has never been sooo good! I beg the Father, you may dance as well!
Ice to Vapor...it is freedom! Ah, t tell you all that God has done...it would take a book! Let it suffice a very short rendition of my life: I once was lost, but now I am found. I have been transformed! 'twas in my past that I once was very lonely and depressed. Life had dealt a hard blow to a child very small. Much abuse in various forms. I hated men. I hated life. I knew not God. I wanted death. I begged for it, yet it would not come. I came to it. I joined the darkside. I became and understudy in a coven. I wanted to get even with the world. I wanted a power that would protect me from what people could not. Witchcraft. I delved deeply and quickly. I learned well. Soon, I was to become a bride of satan. He wanted more of me than I could give. I lived in fear. Would he protect me, no! He was the betrayer! It was he who taught men how to do the evil they had done! I could not remain. His promises were empty. He built for me a shallow grave. Slowly I was wilting. His demons came to me in midnight hours. I had decided to turn away. I was to pay a huge price for that. They would not let me go freely. Choking, breathless, screaming without a oice...they meant to harm me forever. Every night, the same attack. Someone I had sered deotedly, satan, had turned on me so treacherously. What faithfulness has he to his followers? None, I say. He can only hide so long. My eyes were opened. I could serve him no longer. I saw his plan.
Enter the Light: I knew it not. All i knew was darkness, defilement, pain. What was this strange new thing? Could I trust it? All I had ever known was betrayal, but when I saw It, I knew It was what I had truly desired all along. What I had sought for in the dark, with my eyes blinded, and could not seee clearly, now was coming into focus. I had found it, or it had found me? Whatever it was, I wanted it. From the depths of my being, I cried out to know the way to obtain it. It was insatiable hunger. I sought after it until I found the Way, its name was Jesus. It was March 10th, 1995...I remember it like yesterday. I vowed to serve Him for the rest of m life. So it was, He came in and washed away my stains. He gave me beauty for ashes. Ashes, that was all I had to offer in exchange, but He took them and gave me so much more. Finally, I had life, transformed glorious light-filled life! A reason to live, a hope unending. Ah, I breathe! The freedom brings forth dance. I have danced now for nine years and will continue eternally- the Immortale dance! I see through different eyes now. I would never go back. Do I know everything now? No, but one thing I know- Jesus is good and I will never be the same! I will serve Him whole-heartedly. I will trust Him in what I do not know. He will lead me on. A mere goth, turned glitter...I will glorify Him. He knows transformation. I know the power of it. Lady Mariposa Immortale...a name of a new creation. What I could not earn enought to receive from satan, God gave to me freely. Transformation, have you had it? You'll never go back. It is who you will be. This is who I am. Greetings from the Light! God loves the goths. It is a glorious day!
Dare I ask, will you enter in this realm with me? |
