The
Butterfly (Struggles)
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. Until it suddenly stopped making any progress and looked
like it was stuck.
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, although it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.
The man didn’t think anything of it and sat there waiting for the
wings to enlarge to support the butterfly. But that didn’t happen. The
butterfly spent the rest of its life unable to fly, crawling around with tiny
wings and a swollen body.
Despite the kind heart of the man,
he didn’t understand that the restricting cocoon and the struggle needed
by the butterfly to get itself through the small opening; were God’s way of
forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings. To prepare itself
for flying once it was out of the cocoon.
Moral of the story: Our struggles in
life develop our strengths. Without struggles, we never
grow and never get stronger, so it’s important for us to tackle challenges on
our own, and not be relying on help from others.
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