Struggles and the Butterfly
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress.
It appeared as if it had gotten as
far as it could and it could go no farther. Then the
man decided to help the butterfly,
so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the
cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and
small, shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch the butterfly
because he expected that, at any moment,
the wings would enlarge and expand to
be able to support the body, which
would contract in time. Neither happened!
In fact, the butterfly spent the rest
of its life crawling around
with a swollen body and shriveled
wings. It never was able to fly.
What the man in his kindness and haste
did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required
for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing
fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be
ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. And we could never fly.
Remember "no leaf moves in the wind
without God's aproval"
Share this with everyone, all of us
need reminders of God's grateness!
GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!
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