One day a small opening appeared in a cocoon . A man sat up and began to observe the cocoon for several hours as the butterfly struggled to make its body through that little hole. Suddenly it seemed to stop making any progress. So the man decided to help her , took scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon and the butterfly emerged easily .
The body was withered little butterfly and its wings were wrinkled . The man continued to watch her, because he expected that at any moment , the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support that small and frail body , which would contract in time and fly freely.
Nothing happened ! In fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a withered body and shriveled wings . She was never able to fly . What the man , in his kindness and haste did not know , is that that restricting cocoon and the butterfly natural effort that was to leave him , was the way God meant that the body fluid 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 had created man inside a dome of protection, thus preventing it never passed by any stretch , facing the natural obstacles of life , man would surely be a weak , powerless and without resistance.