The butterfly...and struggles in our life

This story has amazingly touched my heart and made me think deeply. When I read the tittle, I asked myself, "why is it here, in the inspirational stories website?What the butterfly has to do with inspiration?" After finished reading it, I finally understood...

The Butterfly

By: Author Unknown

A man found a cocoon for 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 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. The butterfly had a swollen body and shriveled

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 contract in time.

Neither happened. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life

crawling around with a swollen body and deformed wings. It was never

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 small opening of the cocoon are 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 all our life without any obstacles, that

would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.

Not only that, we could never fly.

I must say that I'm really impressed with the story's author and how he relates the butterfly's struggle to live to human. I agree that sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. In order to live a meaningful life, God gives us many obstacles. He just wants to test us if we are strong enough to face them.At the end of the day, we'll be stronger.

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