Friday, October 28, 2011

Caterpillar to Butterfly


I found this little story in internet written by unknown person.. I wanted to share this story.. So I am posting it here...

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a *BUTTERFLY*

"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 further.
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 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 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 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 lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us.
We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!


I asked for Strength.........
And God gave me Difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for Wisdom.........
And God gave me Problems to solve.
I asked for Prosperity.........
And God gave me Brain and Brawn to work.
I asked for Courage.........
And God gave me Danger to overcome.
I asked for Love.........
And God gave me Troubled people to help.
I asked for Favors.........
And God gave me Opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted ........
I received everything I needed!
Trust in God. Always.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Lessons of Life

Recently, I went to a marriage function. We all know functions are meant to enjoy but in our life we should observe things around us. As I always do, I was observing my environment. I saw a man who was visually challenged in that function. Let me mention him as SIR.

SIR was just a guest like me to that function. He was accompanied by a person, who was not very caring about him. I was watching them from the moment they entered the hall. The person accompanied made SIR to sit in a chair and as soon as he sat, that person went away. SIR thinking that the man was near him, he was speaking alone. And when he didn't get any response he realized that no one was around him. His face went sad. This incident created a pain in my heart. I felt something bad inside.
How it would have hurt my SIR? How lonely HE would have felt?
How those people can acquaint with others? How they live? Their life is strange.

Speaking about all physically Challenged people,
Every day is a battle for them. And they have to win their battle everyday for their survival.
They are rightly named as "Differently Enabled".

Just imagine the confidence these people should have.
We are still grumbling on silly things, and blowing our own trumpets. There are many things we are unaware of. Life has lots to teach and we have lots to learn.

Instead of considering some famous person who is not acquainted with us, we all should consider these DIFFERENTLY ENABLED people as our Inspiration. It will give us confidence to achieve things in life.

Also, we should thank God for giving us the best even before we have asked him and we should use them properly.

When we meet a failure in our life, its not an END, its just a BEND.
These physically challenged people are transforming impossible to Possible, after all the word Impossible itself says I'm Possible.