Trust in Nature
Mood:  bright
Topic: Musings
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 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 it's 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 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 were
to go
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!