The Butterfly
A man found a cocoon with a small hole in it. He sat and watched for
several hours as a butterfly struggled to force its body out of the
small hole. Then, it seamed that the butterfly had stopped making
progress and the butterfly could go no farther.
He took his pocket knife and carefully cut the cocoon open. The butter
fly emerged easily. But he had a swollen body and shriveled wings. The
man watched the butterfly, he expected the wings would enlarge to
support the body in time.
It never happened! The butterfly spent the rest of it's life crawling
around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It was never able to fly!
What the man, in his attempted kindness, didn't understand was the the
restricted cocoon and the struggle for the butterfly to get out though
the tiny opening forced the fluids from the body into the wings so that
the butterfly was ready to fly when it was free from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggle is exactly what we need in our lives. If we went
though life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would never
grow to be strong. Like the butterfly, we would never be able to fly.
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