If Nothing Ever Changed (for Julie - scrapaholic)
By Amy D
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I made this LO for my swap & crop pal, Julie – scrapaholic. It was pretty easy to plan the Los I did for her because her pix are sooooo great!!
01/13/08 AD Challenge Template by Kellie Mize
ABR Scenic Route
MRE Lifted Journal Pages
MST Styles Inked Edges
Leora Sanford Paper Cuts 2
ASO Styles Micro Glitter
Katie Perteit Double Up Stitching
Font: Colonna MT, Footlight MT Light. Jayne Print
Journaling/Story: A man found a butterfly cocoon outside his window. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through the little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and could go no farther. Then the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. Something was strange. The butterfly had a swollen body and shriveledwings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected 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 deformed 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 small opening of the cocoon are God's way of forcing fluid
through the body of the butterfly and 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 all our life without any obstacles, that would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Not only that, we could never fly.
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