Butterfly Story...our struggles make us stronger!
“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
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 allowed to go
through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would
not be as strong as what
we could have been. We could never fly!”
–Author Unknown
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