The Butterfly ~ An Explanation of Struggle in Life - GreenPassion.org - Dedicated to Medicinal Cannabis Cultivation and Education

jangel · #1 (**permalink**) 05-23-2008, 09:31 AM

The Butterfly
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 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 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 lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we are, or could have been.

We could never fly!

*And, to quote an INXS song (even though some of you may not know this band), "We all have wings, but some of us don't know why." Just some food for thought.......

For those of us with more than our fair share of struggle in our lives, or simply just to enjoy....thought I would pass this one on....

Love and light in your lives,

#2 (**permalink**) 05-23-2008, 09:49 AM

Nice post J-angel. If you think about it the most tramatic event in our life was the act of being born. At no other time do we take on so much pain and change, but not many would see birth as a bad thing, because it's not.