I happened to see my first butterfly of the spring today. I was carrying some groceries into my house when _______ the little lady flew right down in front of my face. She was so _______ that my heart beat with love and my eyes filled with _______. After she left I smiled, wiped my eyes, and_______ for the miracle of life and the miracle of butterflies.

Butterflies have held a(n) _______ place in my heart ever since I _______ my mum when she was only 55 years old. She used to _______ it when the butterflies would _______ near her while she tended her flower boxes. She would even speak to them gently in her musical _______. After she died I would think of her when I saw one of the wonderful angels ________by. I even told my young children that every time they saw a butterfly, it was their ________ saying “Hello” from Heaven.

When today’s butterfly ________ to say “Hi”, I once again felt a ________ beyond words. I felt like it was my mum showing her love. I felt like I was ________ on the clouds with her while a thousand angels sang.

Now some may say that I am just a ________ man, but I know this isn’t so. Delusions (幻觉) ________ your life with love. Delusions fill your heart with ________. The next time that you get your own “Hello from Heaven” then don’t ________it. Welcome it into your soul ________. Let it help you to be the people that the loving person wants you to be. Let its love ________ you.

I live with my husband about miles from the beach. Every few years, the whales come into the _______ while they are migrating. November 2020 was one of those times, so we set off to watch the wildlife feeding on silverfish. We _______ when whales turned their side fins as if they were waving at us.

The next day I asked my friend Liz if she wanted to see whales. “I’m scared,” said Liz. “There is nothing to worry about,” I _______ her. After much _______, she agreed to join us. I didn’t want her to miss this _______ experience.

Liz and I got out on the water the following morning. After a half hour, we had our first whale _______: two whales swimming toward us. How amazing to be that close to a creature that size! Suddenly, our kayak (皮艇) was _______ out of the water about six feet. Liz and I slipped out of the kayak into the whale’s _______. As it closed, Liz _______. I just kept thinking. I’ve got to ________ this. Whales have ________ mouths but tiny throats. They spit out anything they can’t ________. That included us! In just 10 seconds, we were thrown out. ________, we survived.

Liz was shaken up and said her whale-watching days were over. But I was much more aware of the power of the nature than before. Liz, ________, had to laugh. When she took off her shirt, six ________ fell down to the ground — a souvenir from the whales.

The young seal couldn’t have been more than two days old, and yet he was all alone. Sometimes he would swim ______, but he always came back. At first we thought it was ______ that he kept swimming back to us, until we noticed that he obviously had been ______, and had nowhere else to go. We call him “Curious George”.

Without his mother’s milk, George appeared very ______ with his eyes closed. I jumped into the water and swam up to him,______ we were less than two feet away. My heart went out to George and I just hope that he had the ______ to interact with me. Suddenly, he ______ his eyes and immediately he jumped up between my arms, putting his head against my chest. It was a(n)______ moment. But I knew that George wouldn’t ______ without some help.

We ______ the local conservation volunteers. They were ______ that in the absence of his mother, he had developed a ______ relationship with us. They promised they would bring him to an area with ______ people living there and keep an eye on him. Even though it hurt to see him ______, we knew that he was in better hands.

The next day we ______ the conservation volunteers and asked how George was doing.______ the volunteers informed us that he was too close to humans, we realized that was probably our ______! They decided to bring him to a small island wildlife preserve with a lot of seals in the area, where they could better ______ him.

A week later, we called again, and were informed that George was ______ in the water swimming with other seals. George was ______. And he will always swim in my heart.