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I wanted to share this with the list.  It's a good one.

Dennis: Son of PWP/Lillian 79/1


  BENEFITS OF STRUGGLING
  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 farther. 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.