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一只蝴蝶的故事:一位waterloo教授的开场白

发表于 2009-9-10 12:44:12 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
拜读一位 要求甚严的大学教授的开场白,分享原文 及大略翻译:

Why not the easy way out?
The Butterfly...... One day a small opening appeared on a cocoon. A man sat and watched for 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 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. We could never fly.

为什么容易不是好事?

关于一只蝴蝶的故事---
一天,一个茧壳破开了一个小洞,有一个人坐在旁边好几个小时 观察这知蝴蝶如何奋力挣扎来钻出 那个茧上的小洞口。 良久,可是没有什么进展,看似蝴蝶已经尽力了,好像再也没法再进一步了。这时,这位好心人决定帮帮这只蝴蝶。他拿来一把剪刀,把剩下的茧壳给剪掉了。当然,这只蝴蝶就很容易的出来了。但是,它却拥有一个肿大的身躯,细小而蜷缩的翅膀。 这个人还一直在旁边观察这只蝴蝶,因为他期望它能在某一刻,张大翅膀,缩小身躯。 但是什么都没有发生!事实上,这只蝴蝶一辈子都在托着肿大的身躯,萎缩的翅膀 到处爬行。 它永远都不能飞起来。 这位好心和轻率的人,不懂得茧壳的限制和蝴蝶奋力通过细小的洞口,正是上帝奇妙的安排。来迫使体液从躯干流入翅膀,从而,当蝴蝶从茧中钻出而获得自由的时候,它就可以飞翔了。

有些时候,痛苦的挣扎正是我们生命所需要的。如果上帝让我们的生命毫无坎坷,那反而于我们无益。 我们将没有我们所应具备的强壮,我们将永远不会飞翔.
发表于 2009-9-12 17:28:55 | 显示全部楼层
Thanks,
Very good article.
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