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Friday, 29 June 2007 |
A student found a cocoon one day and brought it to his homeroom which was in the biology lab. The teacher put it into an unused aquarium with a lamp to keep the cocoon warm. About a week went by when a small opening began to appear on the underside of the cocoon. The students watched as it began to shake. Suddenly, tiny antennae emerged, followed by the head and tiny front feet. The students would run back to the lab in between classes to check on the progress of the cocoon. By lunchtime it had struggled to free its listless wings, the colors revealing that it was a monarch butterfly. It wiggled, shook, and struggled, but now it seemed to be stuck. Try as it might, the butterfly couldn't seem to force its body through the small opening in the cocoon.
Finally, one student decided to help the butterfly out of its difficulty. He took scissors from the table, snipped off the cocoon's restrictive covering, and out plopped an insect-like thing. The top half looked like a butterfly with droopy wings, the bottom half, which was just out of the cocoon, was large and swollen. The butter-pillar or eater-fly never flew with its stunted wings. It just crawled around the bottom of the aquarium dragging its wings and swollen body. Within a short time it died. The next day the biology teacher explained that the butterfly's struggle to get through the tiny opening was necessary in order to force the fluids from the swollen body into the wings so that they would be strong enough to fly. Without the struggle the wings never developed and the butterfly could not fly. As for the butterfly, so too for us — we cannot violate the Laws of Creation. Without struggles a lot of things in life never develop.
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