Wednesdays Journey

Good Morning Friends,

Wednesday has come back to bless you once again. The message is simple; we have all dealt with adversity and trouble in our lives which helped us grow and become who we needed to be. . I have shared this story or one similar before, it provides us with wise council that may assist us in our journey. May today be what you need it to be; if not learn what it is you need; and move your life in a forward direction towards your dreams.

“We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.”

Strength from Adversity

A man 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 gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther.

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 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 was never 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.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. And we could never fly.

--- Author Unknown

Wednesday's attempt at humor:

A guy rushes into a bar, orders four expensive 30-year-old single malts and has

the bartender line them up in front of him. Then without pausing, he quickly

downs each one. "Whew," the bartender remarked, "you seem to be in a hurry."

"You would be too if you had what I have." "What do you have?" the bartender

sympathetically asked. "Fifty cents."

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