A man found the cocoon of butterfly.  One day a small opening appeared.
He 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 had gotten as far 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 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!

The butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen and shriveled wing. It never was able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny  opening was 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 obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been…
We could never fly...