The Loving wrath of mother nature

The Loving Wrath of Mother Nature

Once upon a time there lived a well-intentioned man. This man was sitting in his garden one afternoon when he noticed a newly formed caterpillar’s cocoon. After studying the cocoon for several days and observing no apparent changes, a small opening began to appear in the cocoon’s thick protective shell.

Later that evening, the man saw a butterfly beginning to emerge from the tiny hole. For several hours, the new-born butterfly struggled to force its body through the extremely small hole. Indeed, many hours passed, but it seemed as if the butterfly was not making any progress at all. It appeared to the man that the butterfly had gotten as far as it was physically able to go and it could not progress any further.

So, being the good-intentioned man that he was, he decided to assist the butterfly. He used a pair of scissors and snipped open a larger hole in the cocoon. Minutes later, the butterfly emerged alive. The man was pleased by his good deed and patently waited for the butterfly to flap its wings and join its brothers in the sky.

But the butterfly that emerged did not look like a typical butterfly. It had a swollen body and small, shrivelled wings, even hours after emerging from the cocoon. In fact, that butterfly spent the rest of its days feebly crawling around the man’s garden, unable to carry the weight of its enlarged body and slight wings.

The well-intentioned man soon realized that the restrictions of the cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to emerge through its tiny opening was Mother Nature’s way of forcibly constricting the butterfly’s body and strengthening the butterfly’s wings for flight.

It seems that the Infinite Intelligence actually imposes certain restrictions and challenges on man and animal alike in order to strengthen us for future hardships and tests. Without accepting and conquering the challenges it is asked to face at birth, the butterfly is unable to fly. So too without accepting and conquering our own challenges, we are also unable to fly. Just as the butterfly fails to live out its true nature in being unable to fly, so do we cheat human nature by not welcoming challenges and accepting hardships.
Author Unknown

“Fate tests men to see if they are worthy of greatness.”
Napoleon Hill