Notice the butterfly how it floats through the air with grace and ease. It’s colorful and beautiful wings delicate, yet strong. Did you know that the butterfly endured tough times to become beautiful?

A butterfly starts its life as an ugly caterpillar trapped in a cocoon. It struggles and struggles to break free the cocoon. While struggling to get out, its wing muscles gets stronger from the struggle. The strength gained is necessary so that the butterfly can fly out of its cocoon once it breaks free. There is purpose in the struggle. When the caterpillar finally breaks free of its cocoon, it has fully developed into the beautiful butterfly it was meant to be. If you tried to make life easier for the caterpillar and cut open the cocoon, it would never gain the strength needed to fly and it would die.

Your life is a process of continual learning and growing. We are called to evolve in every aspect of our life: character, wisdom, personality, and emotional. Often this process of growth (your cocoon) is created through adversity, struggles and challenges. If you stay conscious that life is calling you to evolve, you will gain strength. You too will fly with ease and grace like the beautiful butterfly.