TAKE IT IN THE RIGHT SPIRIT
November 8, 1999
A man was regularly observing a butterfly cocoon lying on his
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. 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
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. He
continued to watch the butterfly, because he expected that, at any moment, the
wings would enlarge and expand to support the body, which would
contract in time.
Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of it's
life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It was
never able to fly.
What he had done in his well intentioned kindness and haste, he
did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle
required to get through the tiny opening were God's way of
forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into it's 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 God
allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would
We would not be as strong as we could have been...... And we
could never fly......Have a great day, great life, and struggle a little.... Then fly!
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Andrew Ho --- Malaysia