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A man found the 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 God'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 its freedom

from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we

need in our life. If God alowed 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. We could never fly.