A prayer prayed in the dark. An answer that took thirty years to see.
As a lonely teenager, Jeff Hollingsworth prayed for one thing: someone to love him. He had no idea what he was asking for-or that the answer was already in motion.
Under the Butterfly is the true story of a marriage that shouldn't have lasted, a family that shouldn't have grown the way it did, and a faith that held through every reason it had to break. From a butterfly sculpture in a Spokane park to a house full of nine children, Jeff and Rachel tell it in two voices-his plain and unflinching, hers devotional and honest-across deployments, miscarriage, a business lost to bankruptcy, and the slow work of a man learning that being in the house is not the same as being present.
This isn't a book about a man who got it right. It's about a man who kept failing and kept getting met anyway.
It's for anyone who has ever:
- Prayed for something and heard silence instead of yes
- Wondered if God is still good when the answer is no
- Worked so hard to provide that they forgot to show up
- Needed proof that a hard season is building something they can't see yet
Honest about the failures. Clear about the hope. Under the Butterfly is a story about grace that shows up in a real life-and the truth that God's goodness was never dependent on the answer.
He was good before He answered. He was good in the waiting. He would have been good if the answer had been no.
