Aboslutely...positively beautiful.
--- "Nancy E. Hale" <nanny@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> Sorry Girls - I got this in the e-mail and just had > to post it to the forum. > > a1038f.jpg > a10583.jpg > a1060b.jpg > A Butterfly > > A man found a cocoon for 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 the little hole. Then it seemed to > stop making any > progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as > it could and could go > no farther. Then the man decided to help the > butterfly. > > He took a pair of scissors and snipped the remaining > bit of the cocoon. The > butterfly then emerged easily. Something was > strange. The butterfly had a > swollen body and shriveled wings. The man continued > to watch the butterfly > because he expected 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 deformed 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 small opening of the cocoon are 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 all our life without > any obstacles, that > would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what > we could have been. Not > only that, we could never fly. > > a1069b.jpg > > ICQ #9683431