Life is...
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is a sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
--Mother Teresa
Sometimes Struggles Are Exactly What We Need In Our Lives
The Butterfly
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.
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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