This month we are focusing on how having humility helps us live our best life.
The next Grandfather Teaching we will be learning about and practicing in December is humility.
The Wolf is the animal that is used to represent the value of humility.
In the natural world, the wolf expresses this humbleness very clearly. The wolf lives within a pack of other wolves. The pack operates as a team. Each animal has a role within this pack to play. Several animals may be the hunters, some may be the protectors, some may be the nurturers and others may be the pups that follow, learn and grow. Each animal is not more important than the others as each animal must perform the role that it has for the survival and betterment of the pack. Each animal within the pack is very important thus none is better than the other.
When the wolf comes up to another larger creature, this animal will bow its head not out of fear, but out of humbleness. He humbles himself in your presence. A wolf that has hunted food will take this food back to the den to eat with the pack before he takes the first bite of food. The act of sharing from one animal to another is shown clearly with this example. The animal must share for the survival of the pack.
Excerpts from: Dave Courchene Jr., Cindy Crowe and Richard Carlson, PhD.
We look forward to learning more about how to be humble learners this month.