THE BUTTERFLY
"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 further.
So the man decided to help the
butterfly. 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 lives.
If God allowed us to go through
our lives without any obstacles,
it would cripple us.
We would not be as strong as
what we could have been.
We could never fly!
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