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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!
Author Known To God
 
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Music:
Where No
One Stands
Alone
Blackwood
Brothers
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Made with love
Page put together by Jimmy
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