A man found a butterfuly's cocoon. One day, a small opening in the cocoon appeared. He sat and watched the butterfuly 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 the man decided 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 shrivelled wings.
The man continued to watch the butterfuly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand until it could 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 shirvelled 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 the Creator's way of forcing fluid from the butterfly's body into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it freed itself from the cocoon.
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