The Crippled 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 for as it could and it could go on fatther. 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 shrivelled wings. He continued to watch the butterfly, because he expected that the wings would enlarge and expand to support the body, which would fly up in time.

  The flight never happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling  around with a swollen body and shrivelled wings.It was  never able to fly.what he had done in his well intentioned kindness and haste, what he did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required 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.

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   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 we could have been,and we could never fly.
   有时候，奋争正是我们的生活中所必需的。如果上天要我们的一生没有任何艰难险阻，那只会严重损害我们。那样我们将不能拥有我们应有的强壮，就永远不会飞翔。

cocoon 茧
swollen 肿胀的
shrivel (使)起皱纹, (使)枯萎