By Daniel L. Bamberg
Daniel@Centrevillepress.com
English writer, Christopher Fry once wrote, “Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, as a moth brushes a window with its wing.” Margaret Fields of Bay Minette recently found a blessing and understanding in a brush with a moth.
In February, Fields was diagnosed with a grade 3 (nearly grade 4) brain tumor. The RN was working in Connecticut as a travel nurse and while on assignment begin experiencing difficulties. When she returned home to Alabama she was diagnosed. “I have little memory from between February and May.
Fields was recently able to get a break from chemotherapy. For this reason, a friend whose father owns a cabin in Sevierville, Tennessee offered Fields a chance to spend a week at the cabin in the Smokey Mountains.
“It was meant to be a fun time, a peaceful time, but I had headaches,” explained Fields. These headaches lasted for 3 days. Finally something occurred which Fields identifies as an unequivocal blessing.
That morning Fields and a friend who was staying with her witnessed a white and brown moth land onto a redwood table. The moth remained until nightfall. This wasn’t just any other moth according to Fields, nor to the many who have seen the photo or heard the story. There is an obvious cross design on its back, but to so many who have seen it, there is more going on than that.
Some suggest there is a 3 dimensional shape within the cross, resembling the Crucifix.
There appears to be a crown of thorns at the head of the cross, elbows seem to bend below the crux of the cross, there even seems to be a waist-line. Even more strange is the faded white marked on the left side of the body under what would be the ribcage, where a spear stabbed Christ.
Fields suggests that her headaches went away the evening of the moth’s visit to the cabin. She also explains that the moment has given her a peace within the situation she is currently going through in regards to her brain tumor. “I believe Christ is giving me peace. He is telling me that he is with me. This was a real blessing,”
Is this just an ordinary moth? Or is did God speak to Fields on that morning? Skeptics might not see the spiritual impact, but one thing is for certain. This moth, simple or not, touched the heart and the spirit of Margaret Fields.
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