Another Lesson From The Butterfly

Here is another lesson from the butterfly.  See the previous post for the first ones

There is a story that when John James Audubon was a boy, he saw a budding butterfly that had just transformed from a caterpillar in it’s cocoon.  It looked to him as though the butterfly was struggling to get out and was in pain.  So he snipped the cocoon in order to make a larger opening.  Soon the butterfly emerged.  Sadly, one of it’s wings was deformed, so it couldn’t properly fly.

This teaches us that it was in the struggle that a butterfly becomes fully formed and strong enough to be what it’s meant to be.

Sound Familiar?

You, me, and all of us have had struggles, or are having some now, and yes there will most likely be more.  Just like the butterfly, it is through those struggles that we can get stronger.  It is getting through to the other end, that we get stronger and can fly.

If you adopt the belief and attitude that the struggles presented to you are challenges meant to make you stronger, they will do just that when you push through the cocoon.

The difference between you and the butterfly is choice.  The butterfly does not have a choice, you do.  What you choose to do with the struggle determines whether you come out of your cocoon ready to fly.

There is light at the end of the tunnel, and there is life at the end of the cocoon.

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