st. john's lodge no 2 - The Trestleboard

DENNIS C BOETTCHER – 03/07/1979
THOMAS M GOTT JR – 03/30/1983
WAYNE L THOMAS – 03/30/1988
DAVID M CANNON – 03/24/1997
THOMAS J ATKINSON – 03/06/2002
STEPHANE G SABOURIN PM – 03/03/2010
GREGORY W PINE – 03/15/2012
ZACHARY A TAYLOR – 03/15/2012
JOEL R BREWER – 03/23/2013
DONALD HAMMOND – 03/27/2013
CHARLES J ARCARO – 03/27/2013
JEFFREY T LANK – 03/05/2014
COREY D LABER – 03/02/2016
BRUCE A WILLIAMS – 03/02/2016
ROBERT LEE DANIELS – 03/26/2022

Butterfly

.....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 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 lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us.

.....We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!

I asked for Strength.........
And God gave me Difficulties to make me strong.