In a recent UCC Daily Devotional, Rev. John Edgerton writes about the struggles faced by Noah and his family. The rains that produced the flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights, Biblical code for long enough to feel it might never end. 

Resurrection has never been about resuscitation, the revival of a body that had   stopped breathing and died. Resurrection happens when an old body gives way and new life rises from it: a new life growing out of the old one, a new life with some features carried over from the old, perhaps, but renewed and not the same.  Butterflies are not caterpillars, and should not be expected to behave as if they were.