The
butterfly
Author Unknown
One day while walking through the woods, a man found a cocoon.
He decided to take the cocoon home to watch its transformation into a butterfly.
He gently
placed it on his table and watched it for several days.
One day a small opening appeared and the cocoon started to move. The old man
sat and watched it
for several hours as it struggled and struggled to force its body from the
cocoon.
Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten
as far as it could and
was unable to go any farther. Finally, the old man feeling sorry for the cocooned
butterfly, decided to help the butterfly.He took a pair of scissors and snipped
off the
remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then easily emerged.
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 the 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 thebutterfly 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 only cripple us.
We would not be as strong as what we could have been.
And we could never fly.
