The Butterfly.

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A man found a cocoon.One day a small opening appeared as the man watched.He sat there and watched the soon to be butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force it's body through the little hole.
Then it seemed to stop making any progress.It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and could go no farther.Then the man decided to help the butterfly.
He took a pair of scissors and snipped the remaining bit of the cocoon.The butterfly then emerged easily.
Something was strange here.The butterfly had a swollen body and shrivelled wings.The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected at any moment the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body which would contact in time.
................Neither Happened...................
In fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and wings that couldn't 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 small opening of the cocoon are 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 its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life.
If God allowed us to go through all our life without obstacles that would cripple us.
We would not be as strong as what we could have been.
Not only that.
WE could never fly,without His grace to help us through.
Auther Unknown...