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How
God perfects devotees
A man once
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 gone as far as it could and it could go no
further.
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.
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