Thanks for the words of wisdom. I appreciate it.
Cathy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lillian jennings [SMTP:firefly@islc.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 1998 3:36 PM
> To: mol-cancer@lists.meds.com
> Subject: [MOL] Something to ponder on friends!
>
> *** 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.
>
> "Count it all joy, brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing
>
> that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance
> have it's full effect, that you may be complete and perfect, lacking in
>
> nothing."
>
> --
> MZ
>
>
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