Re: non-rls but worth a read

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Hi to all the group,

I received this from my sister and I thought I would share it.

Kristy, 43, Fountain Hills, AZ

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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 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. >>