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Inspiration: Life's Challenges Make Us Stronger
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A Butterfly
A man
found a cocoon for 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 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 throughall 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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