The Butterfly

The 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!

 

Lessons to be learnt : 

• When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
• Nothing in life is always smooth-sailing nor goes according to plan, hardships are there to mould us into stronger individuals.
• Life is constantly about overcoming challenges, it's only through tough times that we became more resilient.

Make a Difference

Make a Difference  

A man was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along he began to see another man in the distance.
As he grew nearer he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up, and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he kept hurling things out into the ocean.
As our friend approached even closer he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had washed up onto the beach, and one at a time, he was throwing them back into the ocean.

The first man was puzzled. He approached the man and said, "Good Evening Friend, I was wondering what are you doing?" And he replied, "I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide right now and all these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back into the sea, they will die from the lack of oxygen."
"I understand," my friend replied "but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach and you couldn't possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many and don't you realize that this is happening on hundreds of beaches up and down this coast ... can't you see that that you can't possibly make a difference?
The local native smiled, bent down, picked up yet another starfish ... and as he threw it back out into the sea, he replied, "It made a difference to that one!"
You may feel like you cannot make a difference in the world today, but you CAN make a difference in one life at a time.

 

Lessons to be learnt :    

• Never underestimate your own efforts. You too could make a difference.
• Don't ask what the world could do for you, seek what you could do to the world.

Frogs

A group of frogs was traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit.
All the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead.
The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump out of the pit with all of their might.
The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead.
Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died.
The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die.
He jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, "Did you not hear us?"
The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time.
Author Unknown

Lessons to be learnt:

1. There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging word to someone who is down can lift them up and help them make it through the day.
2. A destructive word to someone who is down can be what it takes to kill him or her.
Be careful of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path. The power of words.... it is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in difficult times.
Special is the individual who will take the time to encourage another.
Be special to others.

YOU NEVER LOSE YOUR VALUE

A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill.  In the room of 200, he asked "What is this piece of paper and is it worth anything?"  "It is a $20 bill, which can be cashed  in international & national markets for it's  quoted value?" replied one of the many participants who raised their hands.
The speaker proceeded to crumple up the $20 bill  using both his hands until it  became a bundle of wrinkled paper.  He then unfolded it again and making an unsuccessful attempt to keep it  straight he asked, "Would you still be able to negotiate it for it's  quoted value?"
" Yes !!" was the echoing reply from the participants.
"Well," he said, "Looks like I haven't done enough!   What if I do this?"  And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, which was now all crumpled, dirty, defaced  and not easy to recognize from a distance.  "Now will some one like to trade it for its quoted value?" Many hands went  in the air.

"I think that piece of currency is still holding its quoted value" replied  a participant  in an  unsure voice.  "This bill can still fetch goods worth 20 Dollars"  said the other participants. Every one agreed.
"My friends, there is a very valuable lesson in this exercise that we are just through with. It may have appeared to some of you, that I was able to  deshape, deface, mutilate & alter the $20 bill during the process as the effects were quite visible".
"However, No matter what I did to this piece of paper, you still upheld its negotiability because you were sure in your mind that my actions did  not actually decrease its value. It was still a currency note worth $20".
"Many times in our lives, we feel as though  we are dropped, crumpled, and  ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and/or the circumstances  that come our way.  We feel as though we are worthless.  It may also appear  to onlookers as if it has really happened to a certain extent. But no matter  what has happened or what will happen, please remember you never lose your  "Value". 
 

 

Lessons to be learnt :

• Never degrade or undermine ourselves due to circumstances or decisions we may have made. Remember no one is perfect, people make mistakes. So learn how to forgive yourself for that.
• Never allow our moods to fall prey to uncontrolled situations and scenarios, never be at the mercy of something that is beyond our control.
• You choose to feel what you feel. Nobody and nothing could bring you down without your permission.

May 27,2012

Its a very depressing day for me. Hayyyy!!! Why life is so unfair, I really hate this day. I just wanna cry and cry, I cant seem to think of a way to be happy. I hope God will do something for me this day, cause I dont know what to do anymore. Im so sad, no words could describe how depressing this day is for me. Please give me something that would make me happy and solve all the problems I have, and save me for more depressing happenings even just for today, even just a little, please take away a little of more imbarrasing and depressing moment, just this day. I wanna rest from thinking of those things. Waaaaaaaaaaaa, please I wanna be happy even just a little, especially this day....:(:(:(

ITS MEH...:):):)

tHe sWaGgEr pRiNcEsS ~ DEVON MAY NATIVIDAD SERON