i know God will not give me anything I can't handle. i just wish that He didn't trust me so much. - mother teresa

Strength from Adversity

- Unknown

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 farther.

Then the man decided to help the butterfly, 

so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. 

The butterfly 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 was never 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 life. 

If God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles

 it would cripple us. 

We would not be as strong 

as what we could have been. 

And we could never fly.

Don't You Quit

-Unknown

When things go wrong as they sometimes will

When the road you're trudging seems all up hill. 

When funds are low and the debts are high. 

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh. 

When care is pressing you down a bit. 

Rest, if you must, but don't you quit. 

Life is queer with its twists and turns. 

As everyone of us sometimes learns. 

And many a failure turns about 

When he might have won had he stuck it out.

Don't give up though the pace seems slow - 

You may succeed with another blow. 

Success is failure turned inside out - 

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt. 

And you never can tell how close you are. 

It may be near when it seems so far: 

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit 

It's when things seem worst

that you must not quit.