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       Benefits of Struggling
   DIR By: Admin
       Date: June 12, 2013, 11:43 pm
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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.
       [center]Neither happened![/center]
       In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling
       around with a swollen body and shriveled wings.
       [center]It never was able to fly.[/center]
       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.
       [center]And we could never fly.[/center]
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