For Judy and anyone else...
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For Judy and anyone else who is, or knows someone who is struggling.
I heard a story on our local Christian radio station today.
It was a story about a man who saw a caterpillar making his cocoon. He decided to keep an eye on it through the whole process. Once the cocoon started to move an wriggle, he knew the butterfly was ready to come out. He saw the butterfly make the first hole. He saw the butterfly struggling tremendously. He got out his pocket knife and slit open the cocoon relieving the butterfly from his struggling to get out. The butterfly emerged and immediately fell to the ground and couldn’t fly.
It turns out that the struggling that the butterfly has to do is all part of the process. The struggling to get out of the cocoon is what makes the butterfly’s wings strong enough for him to fly. This poor butterfly however, could not fly, and was doomed to an early death because someone decided to help him with his struggles.
It appears the same is true for us humans. If someone helps us with our struggles, we may not be strong enough to fly and doomed to an early death.
Pray for your brothers and sisters during their struggles and rejoice that they will be stronger when they emerge from their cocoon.
I wonder how many more cocoons I’m going to have to bust out of during my life. 
God bless you all.
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Blessings to all
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD,
thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
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