A man found a cocoon of a butterfly.

One day a small opening

appeared. He saw 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
gone 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 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 tiny opening
were nature 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 we went 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!

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