Cocoon

Have you ever studied what happens inside of a cocoon? It’s awful to me the parallels we find in nature to the spiritual truths God shares with us. Caterpillars go through an unbelievable metaboli process in those cocoons, and so it is with us.

Has God invited you to come inside His “specially designed for you” cocoon? If so, be prepared for a very particular time of reflection, soul searching, self-examination, and spending time alone with the Writer of your life story. Here is how you may tell if you’re entering a amount of time of transformation:

Principle #1: You go Through a Preparation for the Cocoon

You seem to be shifting in a good deal of areas of your life. Relationships, priorities, how you spend your time, and what you spend your time on are being shaken, at times to their very core. Gary Collins defines it this way; “Here is a withdrawal time for reflection, soul searching, self-examination, pondering core values and beliefs, spending time with God. There may be sadness and loneliness but this is a sabbatical time for spiritual renewal, taking stock of life, moving beyond the past, rethinking one’s identity and tardily getting in touch with new intents and passions. Sometimes new interests and possiblenesses emerge, there is new spiritual depth and many times a renewed peace and willingness to move forward.” If this describes where you are, let me give hope or courage to you to take full vantage of this amount of time in your life because this is where the transformation begins. Don’t be scared of the loneliness and the sensations of loss – God is doing a new thing in your life.

Principle #2: You find Protection inside the Cocoon

You’re encountering a great deal of difficulties and finelooking harsh resistance in one or more areas of your life. In the natural, the cocoon is a place of protection, a “place of immunity” if you will from the harsh constituents of life. If God has placed you in a cocoon, take vantage of this place of shelter by spending extra amounts of time with Him. It will make your troubles much, much smaller, and your God much, much bigger! Living inside a God-ordained cocoon may be lonely at times, but you may likewise experience magical times of freshening as you take the focus off of your problems, and put your focus on your God.

Principle #3: You go through a Metamorphosis in the Cocoon

You begin to sense the transformation taking place. How? Because as you proceed to stay in this place of protection, and you focus on God, and His Whispers to you in the deepest constituents of your soul, you’ll find the bad habits and negative thought patterns that have plagued you your whole life seem to commence disappearing. The things you were affrighted of before, you’re not frighted of now. A metaboli process is taking place. The little caterpillar is turning into a beauteous butterfly.

Cocoon

Don Ameche (1985 Academy Award®, Best Supporting Actor), Hume Cronyn, Jack Gilford, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Wilford Brimley and Steve Guttenberg star in this charming fantasy adventure.

necessary videoAn offbeat and charming comedy with elements of science fiction thrown in, conductor Ron Howard’s (Ransom, Apollo 13) improbable fantasy ponders the price of immortality and the power of everlasting love. A group of aliens travel to a Florida retirement community to rescue a heap of long-stranded colleagues cocooned and buried under the sea. But as the aliens take on humane form and stash their counterparts in a swimming pool, a group of elderly retirees discover the pool and after swimming in the water find themselves rejuvenated, with boundless energy and insatiable appetites. Soon the retirees are forced to choose amidst living out their lives on world with their families, or leaving with the aliens and attaining immortality. More reputation driven than dependent on the unbelievable plot, the film’s charm comes from it is characters and the fantasti cast, including Don Ameche, who won an Academy Award for his role as one of the randy retirees. –Robert Lane

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26 of 27 persons found the following review helpful.
Every “old folk” will have to see this…
By R. Gawlitta
When I initial saw this film on video, I decisive to rent a video player and visit my elderly parents…and they never had such a good time.My folks are gone now, and my stubborn dad, who hated practically everything, laughed is butt off. He hated movies, in general, but his reaction to “Cocoon” was gratifyting to me. I could make an analyzation of some distinct elements of the film, but there’s little to say, other than the fact that the actors were in touch with their material and ran with it. Ron Howard made a more essential film than he may know. To me, anyway… Every old folk will have to see this film.

20 of 21 persons found the following review helpful.
Rescue of stranded aliens leads to charming comedy
By Peggy Vincent
A group of aliens arrives in a Florida retirement community to rescue their colleagues who have been cocooned and settled under the sea. The aliens unzip and zip on their humane costumes – the initial unveiling, witnessed by the boat captain, is gorgeous and worthy of an award – and stash their rescued buddies in the compound’s swimming pool. The retirees, after swimming in the pool, experience personal rejuvenation: they make love like teenage boys, eat like athletes, and Don Ameche’s Olympian diving performance is unforgettable in itself. And then the retirees, now in on the secret, are asked to choose among attaining immortality by leaving with the aliens – or living our their lifetime on world with their surviving loved ones.
Wonderful, heartening and heartbreaking, inspiring film, directed by Ron Howard, and soooo beautifully cast.

19 of 21 persons found the following review helpful.
A moving, funny, and introductory sci-fi/fantasy/drama.
By Erik Morton
This is one of the few movies I’ve seen that has in truth made me cry. Director Ron Howard scores it huge with this wondrous movie, and the plot is verrrrry original; three old men who live at a retirement center sneak over to a close-by deserted house each day to take a swim in the swimming pool. But a group of aliens masked as humans come down to world to save some of their comrades that they left there thousands of years ago, who are now sealed in huge rock-like cocoons beneath the ocean, and take them home. And when they put the cocoons in the swimming pool to keep them alive and the old men go for a swim, they come out sentiment like a million bucks! This would be a perfective family film if it wasn’t so sexual and vulgar at times (hence the PG-13 rating). But for nine years and up, this is a sure treat. Don Ameche does a fantasti occupation as one of the old men, and Steve Guttenberg is downright amusive as the guy who owns the boat the aliens use, and has a love affair with one of the aliens, as well. It has good lessons on friendship and love, and is a tear-jerker at times. A VERY GOOD movie!

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