LESSONS FROM THE BUTTERFLY

Time and time again, the forces of nature has proven to be a medium through which we learn and understand how life really works.
I read a story once about a butterfly, and am going to share it and we will relate the moral lesson to our life's and everything about us.

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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 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, 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.

Now what is the moral lessons of the story, everything in life happens for a reason, speed is good but it better to allow things take the right course.

Now relating it to this community, everybody want to earn very fast and quickly, but in doing so we are missing the vital things that we are suppose to know about this community. We need to take time to grow gradually so that we wont end up as the butterfly in our attempt to grow faster.

Speed without direction is useless.