Haste Makes Waste
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 go no farther. 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. He continued to watch the butterfly, because he expected that the wings would enlarge and expand to support the body, which would fly up in time.
The night never 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 he had done in his well intentioned kindness and haste, what he did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required to get through the tiny opening were God』 s way of forcing fluid from the body of the buttefly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes, struggnes 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 we could have been, and we could never fly.
心急吃不了熱豆腐
一個人發現了一隻蝴蝶的繭。有一天，繭上出現了一條小裂縫。他坐下來，花了好幾個小時觀看蝴蝶從小裂縫裡艱難地往外爬。後來蝴蝶好像停了下來，再沒有任何進展。似乎它已經盡力了，再也爬不動了。於是，這個人決定幫蝴蝶一把。
他拿來一把剪刀，剪開了繭的剩餘部分。蝴蝶很容易地就爬了出來，但是卻是身體臃腫，帶著小而乾癟的翅膀。他繼續觀察著這隻蝴蝶，希望它的翅膀能夠長大到足以支撐它的身體，最終可以展翅飛翔。
然而，蝴蝶沒有能夠飛起來。事實上，這隻蝴蝶一輩子只能拖著臃腫的身體和萎縮的翅膀爬來爬去。它喪失了飛行的能力。
雖然他是好意，但是行動太草率。他不知道的是，束縛蝴蝶的繭和蝴蝶從繭的微小縫隙裡掙扎著爬出來的過程是上天設計來迫使液體從蝴蝶的體內流向它的翅膀的方法，這樣蝴蝶一旦從繭裡爬出來，就可以展翅飛翔了。
有時候，奮爭正是我們的生活中所必需的。如果上天要我們的一生沒有任何艱難險阻，那只會嚴重損害我們。那樣我們將不能擁有我們應有的強壯，就永遠不會飛翔。
摘自《英語短文精品》
整理：魯蒙海
編輯：海 新
審核：張 楊