The Emperor Moth

A man found a cocoon of an emperor moth.

He took it home so that he could watch the moth come out of the cocoon. On that day a small
opening appeared, he sat and watched the moth for several hours as
the moth struggled to force its body through that little hole.

Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had
got as far as it could and it could go no further. It just seemed to
be stuck. Then the man, in his kindness, decided to help the moth, so
he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the
cocoon. The moth then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and
small, shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the moth 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 little moth 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 moth
to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from
the body of the moth into its wings so that it would be ready for
flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon. Freedom and
flight would only come after the struggle. By depriving the moth of a
struggle, he deprived the moth of health.

Moral: SOMETIMES STRUGGLES ARE EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED IN OUR LIFE. IF GOD
ALLOWED US TO GO THROUGH OUR LIFE WITHOUT ANY OBSTACLES HE WOULD
CRIPPLE US. WE WOULD NOT BE AS STRONG AS WHAT WE COULD HAVE BEEN.

|Story Index|

|home|about me|links|pictures|shout outs|jokes|email|

Thanks to my sponsors!

Gotta give much thanks to Geocities for sponsering my page!

Get your own free homepage