Poetry4Palestine

موضوع: Poetry4Palestine السبت أبريل 05, 2008 3:50 am

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

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 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

And we would never fly