10 January 2010
There once was a man who lived with his two curious and intelligent young daughters, who always asked him many questions.
Some he knew the answers to, but others he had no idea what the answers were.
Because he wished to provide his daughters with the best education, he sent them to spend the holidays with a wise old man who lived on top of a mountain.
He, in turn, answered all of their questions without hesitation.
They became very impatient with this situation because they reached the conclusion that the old man was really wise and so they decided to come up with a question that the wise man wouldn’t know the answer to.
After a few days, one of the girls walked up to her sister with a beautiful blue butterfly in her hand and said:
“This time, the wise man won’t know the answer!”
“What are you going to do?” asked the other girl.
“I’m holding a blue butterfly in my hands. I’m going to ask the wise man if the butterfly is alive or dead. If he says that it’s dead, I will open my hands and let it fly away. If he says that it’s alive, I will quickly squeeze my hands together, crush it and eventually kill it. Regardless of the answer the old man gives us, it will be the wrong answer. “
The two girls then went to meet the wise man who happened to be meditating under a eucalyptus tree on the mountain.
The girl approached him and asked if the butterfly in her hands was alive or dead.
The wise man calmly smiled and said: “It all depends on you. It’s in your hands.”
The same goes for our life, our present and our future.
We shouldn’t blame anyone because something went wrong.
A failure should be viewed as an opportunity for a new, more intelligent beginning.
Aren’t we the ones responsible for what we overcome?
Our life is in our own hands, like the blue butterfly.
It’s up to us and only us to choose what we do with it. Never, ever allow anyone to interfere with that!
Bishop Macedo
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