Friday, December 25, 2020
Thursday, December 24, 2020
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.
Until it suddenly
stopped making any progress and looked like it was stuck.
Therefore, 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
emerged easily, although it had a swollen body and small, shrivelled wings.
The man did not think anything of it and sat there waiting for the wings
to enlarge to support the butterfly. But that didn’t happen. The butterfly
spent the rest of its life unable to fly, crawling around with tiny wings and a
swollen body.
Despite the kind heart of the man, he didn’t
understand that the restricting cocoon and the struggle needed by the
butterfly to get itself through the small opening; were God’s way of forcing
fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings. To prepare itself for
flying once it was out of the cocoon.
Moral of the story:
Our struggles in life develop our strengths.
Without struggles, we never grow and never get stronger, so it is important for
us to tackle challenges on our own, and not be relying on help from others.
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Note to self: do what you can’t until you can.
“There’s nothing wrong with hard work, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of life’s more important areas: health, relationships, passion.”
“Yesterday’s solutions may not work tomorrow.”
“The journey is less difficult when we find meaning in the struggle.”
“A paintbrush can create a masterpiece. A paintbrush can destroy a masterpiece. An idle paintbrush, however, does nothing at all.”
“You may have to endure today’s pain to avoid tomorrow’s suffering.”
“There’s often a large difference between what you want and what you think you want.”
“Dreams usually don’t cost money, but the pursuit of money often costs dreams.”
“Accept it, fix it, or let it go.”
“Being cool has nothing to do with the stuff we own: it has everything to do with the ways we act, the ways we treat other people, the ways we contribute—those are the attributes that make people cool.”
Thinking Out of the box.
In a small Italian town, hundreds of years ago, a small business owner
owed a large sum of money to a loan-shark. The loan-shark was a very old,
unattractive looking guy that just so happened to fancy the business owner’s
daughter.
He decided to offer the businessman a deal that would completely
wipe out the debt he owed him. However, the catch was that we would only wipe
out the debt if he could marry the businessman’s daughter.
Needless to say, this proposal was met with a look of disgust.
The
loan-shark said that he would place two pebbles into a bag, one white and one
black.
The daughter would then have to reach into the bag and pick out a
pebble. If it was black, the debt would be wiped, but the loan-shark would then
marry her. If it was white, the debt would also be wiped, but the daughter
wouldn’t have to marry the loan-shark.
Standing on a pebble-strewn path in the businessman’s garden, the
loan-shark bent over and picked up two pebbles.
Whilst he was picking them up, the
daughter noticed that he’d picked
up two black pebbles and placed them both into the bag.
He then asked
the daughter to reach into the bag and pick one.
The daughter naturally had three choices as to what she could have done:
1.
Refuse to pick a pebble from the bag.
2.
Take both pebbles out of the bag and expose the loan-shark for cheating.
3.
Pick a pebble from the bag fully well knowing it was black and sacrifice
herself for her father’s freedom.
She drew out a pebble from the bag, and before looking at it
‘accidentally’ dropped it into the midst of the other pebbles. She said to the
loan-shark;
“Oh, how clumsy of me. Never mind, if you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I picked.”
The pebble left in the bag is obviously black, and seeing as the loan-shark didn’t want to be exposed, he had to play along as if the pebble the daughter dropped was white, and clear her father’s debt.
Moral of the story:
It’s always possible to overcome a tough situation throughout of
the box thinking, and not give in to the only options you think you have to
pick from.
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