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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 it's body through that little hole. At times, it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if
it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther.
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 struggling 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 Yahveh'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 it's freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes
struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If Yahveh allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it
would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been and we could never fly.
~ Author Unknown ~
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