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ESP Member Elite
since 2000-01-25
Posts 2556Floating gently on a cloud.... |
Is this a sanctuary or a mortuary...? Food for thought: THE STRUGGLE OF THE BUTTERFLY A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours. It struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no farther. So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then merged easily, BUT, it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. He continued to watch the butterfly. He expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and the body would contract. Neither Happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It was never able to fly. The man acted with well- intentioned kinds, but he didn't understand the consequences. The restricting cocoon and the struggle required to get through the tiny opening, were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into it's wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved it's freedom from the cocoon. Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been.... and we could never fly..... Have a great day, great life, and struggle a little.... Then Fly! ================================== IMHO "God" can be replaced with nature or whatever anybody believes in. "Time has told me not to ask for more, one day our ocean will find its shore" ~Nick Drake |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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You lost me at the scissors. I pictured sliced wings. (shrugs and sorry, I have had need of medical help, and that's what I got) but hey? one wing is better than none, right? RIGHT *fluttering* signed, half assed flying |
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
Lizzie, I have read that story before and always like it...glad you posted it, it was a great reminder. *hugs* I will email you later this weekend or monday.  |
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saved_by_grace Member
since 2005-01-08
Posts 332In the arms of God... |
Thank you SOOO much for this post!!! I too have read it before, but God must have known that I needed it again today!! Be Blessed...  Becka |
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ESP Member Elite
since 2000-01-25
Posts 2556Floating gently on a cloud.... |
There is life in the mort...uh...sanctuary! Yay! I love the story, and am glad y'alls like it too! SEA: Ttys!! (Wanted to put that hugz smilie in but I don't know the code and the link to the smilies page doesn't want to load. So pretend it's here...:-p) "Time has told me not to ask for more, one day our ocean will find its shore" ~Nick Drake |
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LoveBug
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since 2000-01-08
Posts 4697 |
It was very nice.. I had never heard that before, but it's true... my motto for life has always been 'from coal to diamonds'.  Oh, make me Thine forever |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Yes...I have read of this, and it follows naturally through any function that, once we tell God to take his "hands off", and we start to reconfigure life...well, then, we are acting unnaturally... and while I have a great compunction to do what is "right" for others, sometimes I do believe science and medicine go too far... and it is a fine, wavering line all of the time. We will never be wise enough to know if God put us there to help, or if God put us there to indicate we should watch, and listen....learn, and know. It IS a conundrum, and I have no true answer than by nothing more to go to your very example, and say, yes...all struggles are required...and stay my own helping hands... for I have a story, too... |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
I have always adored that story, thanks for reposting it. I have a special place for wings m'self. *smile* |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Ahhh...this takes me back....to age 13 or thereabouts, when I wrote this: The Butterfly Once upon a quiet walk, a caterpillar spying, I knelt to watch him hard at work, a great construction trying. At last his great concern was done and safe inside he lay, and I went home determining to come another day. I watched him through the winter months, safe in his silken bed, though from the outside all I saw was frozen, still and dead. Spring came in a crackle of melting ice, great happiness incurring, for when I next beheld the spot I saw, within, a stirring. He soon came from his winter home, no more did it surround him, and lovely wings were now unfurled, wondrous flags around him. He now was free of silken tomb, no more could it berate him, but as he spread his wings to go, a bird flew down and ate him. Now that I've typed this, I ought to post it just for history's sake....maybe in the Teen forum, since that's approximately what I was at the time.... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> ______________Ratleader______________ |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
13!!! Ed!!!! sheesh, all I wrote then was mush, this is amazing. |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Thinking more about it, I believe it was early 9th grade...that would make me 14 yrs old... Ironic, but it's still the poem that's most often mentioned by my birth family when the subject of my poetry comes up -- it sort-of established me as actually a poet in their eyes. I think it's also the first poem I really worked at making just right (hence the overblown vocabulary!), so maybe that's appropriate.... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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LoveBug
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since 2000-01-08
Posts 4697 |
Thats how old I was when I started posting here |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Ah Ed...precious is as precious does. I've posted a LOT of my "old" stuff... in Open. Yep, I have NO shame!  |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Then I will too! I actually have posted three or four that were written in my "before" time -- before the twenty-odd years in which I didn't write poetry at all.... and there's one that's an amalgam, which I wrote at 19 and didn't like, but turned into an actual poem numerous decades later..... /pip/Forum79/HTML/001142.html ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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