Overcoming Obstacles

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This is a story I read when I feel tempted to despair that I dont get

the needed help or support.

 

Obstacles in life are opportunities to develop my spiritual muscle. I

should just have the faith that God never throws at me more than I

can handle. He gives me the problems so that I may develop my inner

resources to handle them. And handle I can as long as I hold onto Him.

 

My thanks to the unknown author for the piece below :-

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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 os it could and could go no farther.

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 small shriveled 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 tiny opening were Nature's way of

forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings

so that it would be ready for flight once it had achieved its freedom

from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If

God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it

would cripple us.

We would not be as strong as what we could have been........

We could never fly!!!

 

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hi all........this is my first mail to the group.......

i usually read all the mails that are being sent, but this one is beautiful......

fantastic, i would say......i don't think i need to add anything more

from my side.....the story in itself is inspiring.

I would be grateful if all of us could share such inspirational stories.

Best Wishes to all......

Sourav.......

Latha Nanda

[lathananda ] Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:51

PMSubject: Overcoming

ObstaclesThis is a story I read when I feel tempted to despair that I

dont get the needed help or support.Obstacles in life are

opportunities to develop my spiritual muscle. I should just have the

faith that God never throws at me more than I can handle. He gives

me the problems so that I may develop my inner resources to handle

them. And handle I can as long as I hold onto Him.My thanks to the

unknown author for the piece below

:-================================================================

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 os it could and could go no farther. 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 small shriveled 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 tiny opening were Nature's way of forcing fluid from

the body of the butterfly into its wingsso that it would be ready for

flight once it had achieved its freedom from the cocoon. Sometimes

struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If God allowed us to

go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us.

We would not be as strong as what we could have been........

We could never

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