Today is Tuesday, December 8th, 2009; Karen's Korner #1712

It must be the time of the year; I am getting some nice forwards from people. This one comes from Sherri O'Brien via her daughter Molli:
 

"How does one become a butterfly?  You must want to fly so much that you are
willing to give up being a caterpillar"
 --Trina Paulus.



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 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. Sometime 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 what we could
have been. We could never fly!

Remember...what we struggle with makes us strong!
 
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