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Day a man found a cocoon (茧) of a butterfly in the
forest. He sat there for several hours and watched the butterfly. Suddenly a
small opening appeared, and the butterfly made its great effort 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 the man decided to help the butterfly. He cut off the
remaining bit of the cocoon so that the butterfly could come our easily. But to
his surprise, the butterfly got a heavy body and very small wings when it came
out of the cocoon.
The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that
the body would grow smaller at any moment and the wings would become larger and
be able to fly. But neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of
its life crawling (爬) around
with a heavy body and small wings. It was never bale to fly.
The man was in his kindness,
but he did not understand the nature rules. Before the butterfly came out of
the cocoon, fluid (流体) from
its body must be forced into its wings, and then it would be ready for flying.
It must have a hard struggle (拼搏) to get through the
small opening to get 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 difficulties, it
would make us fail. We would not be as strong as we could have been; we could
never fly.