In The Midst Of Your Struggle...

In the midst of your struggle with difficulties,
remember this story.

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.

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 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.

So have a nice day and struggle a little.
You will yourself flying high someday.