Title: OT:FW: [globalnews] The Emerging Butterfly
The Butterfly
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
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 lives. If God allowed us to go through
our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple
us. We would not be as strong as what we
could have been.
We could never fly!
I asked for Strength.........And God gave me Difficulties
to make me strong.
I asked for Wisdom.........And God gave me Problems to solve.
I asked for Prosperity.........And God gave me Brain and Brawn
to work.
I asked for Courage.........And God gave me Danger to overcome.
I asked for Love.........And God gave me Troubled people to help.
I asked for Favors.........And God gave me Opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted.........
I received everything I needed!
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Courtesy of Robert B via Machiel Moore
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To obtain the knowledge of Self is a greater achievement than to command the elements or to know the future.
