A Butterfly
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opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for
several hours as it struggled to force its body
through the little hole. Then it seemed to stop making
any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far
as it could and could go no farther. Then the man
decided to help the butterfly.
He took a pair of scissors and snipped the remaining
bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily.
Something was strange. The butterfly had a swollen
body and shriveled wings. The man continued to watch
the butterfly because he expected 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 deformed
wings. It was never 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
smallopening of the cocoon are 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 all our life without
any obstacles, that would cripple us. We would not be
as strong as what we could have been. Not only that,
we could never fly.
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