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 seemedto stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go nofarther.Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissorsand snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly thenemerged 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 crawlingaround with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly. What this man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that therestricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to getthrough the tiny opening were nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once itachieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If nature allowed us to gothrough our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strongas what we could have been. And we could never fly..
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If nature allowed us to gothrough our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strongas what we could have been. And we could never fly..