Ode to Life...
 

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 small opening 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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