Monday, July 26, 2004

Struggle, A Fable

A man found a cocoon of the emperor moth and took it home to watch it emerge. One day, a small opeing appeared, and for several hours the moth struggled but couldn't seem to force its body past a certain point.
Deciding something was wrong, the man took a pair of scissors and snipped the remaining bit of cocoon. The moth emerged easily, its body large and swollen, the wings small and shrivelled.He expected that in a few hours the wings would spread out in nautral beauty, but they did not. Instead of developing into a creature free to fly, the moth spent its life dragging around a swollen body andshrivelled wings.
The constricting cocoon and the struggle necessary to pass thruough the tiny opening are God's way of forcing fluid from the body into wings. The 'merciful' snip was in reality cruel. Sometimes, the struggle is excatly what we need.

It is hard to accept and painful in process.. but maybe thats the only way it will work out. well, i shall keep on praying for something beautiful to happen ...  


norman ran through the snow at 11:43 PM [comment]

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