I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff…

Good Wolf? Bad Wolf?

Paraphrasing an old Cherokee legend, (and Darin Hardy – one of my favorite authors. You should go check him out!) there’s a good wolf and a bad wolf inside each of us.

A son asked his father, the Chief, about this one day wanting to know what it meant because the bad wolf scared him. The wise Chief said he very well should be scared and that the only way to keep the bad wolf from coming out was to starve him and feed only the good wolf so that he was always stronger.

We, too, have two wolves. What we feed into our minds and hearts daily determines what we think on and act on or respond to. It’s hard in today’s instant society to avoid awful, sad depressing, lewd, evil images, stories, and deeds.

Therefore, we have to be even more diligent to guard our hearts (aka not feed the bad wolf), for – though we have our bad wolf pushed aside to the corner – the crumbs that fall from the table of daily living in an evil world, will slowly nourish our bad wolf if we don’t sweep the floor daily.

Here are 3 things we can do to keep starving our bad wolf:

1. Make it a daily thing to start your day off with positivity. Even if you can’t spend 30 or even 10 minutes in the Scriptures, motivational, or self-help material, you can at least find a short, 2 minute snippet of something good – perhaps those 40 Days of Purpose cards, or I highly recommend Darin Daily emails that contain, usually, a 1 to 2 minute short video or audio.
2. Invite God to go with you all day. If you don’t believe in the God of the Bible, what is your higher power? We all need something bigger than ourselves once in a while…or every day!
3. Turn off the noise. Make time for quiet reflection at least once per day. Block anyone on your social media that is negative, lewd, vulgar etc., and don’t allow that stuff in your world. With a simply click (the block button or the remote on your TV) you can sweep the floor of you mind in an instant.

The bad wolf will never stop huffing and puffing, trying to blow your house down. When you feel the wind of negativity in your life, if your house is built out of the bricks of faith, positivity, and love, it will withstand the gale force winds of life.

Question:  What wolf are you feeding most days? What are you going to do to starve the bad one?