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One of Nancy's favorite Victorian
wire and seed bead butterfly creations, like her great-grandmother's
original.
In Due
Season.PDF is a printable brochure you can save and print.
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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 had and it could go no further.
Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so 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 life. If God allowed us to go through
our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we
could have been. And we could never fly.(author unknown) |
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