A Lesson from 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 couldn't go any further.



Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of
scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of 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 his life crawling around with a swollen body and
shriveled wings. It was never able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and haste didn't 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 life.
If God allowed us to go through our life without obstacles,
it would cripple us.
We wouldn't be as strong as we could have been,
and we would never fly.

-Author Unknown-