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 farther. Then the
man decided to help the butterfly, so 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 (or head) 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
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.
Moral: Any hasty decision will be a nasty decision-Prevent it.
JK
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