When storms come, they almost always brew from the west and roll out toward the east.
What cattle do is very natural. They sense the storm coming from the west, and so they start to run toward the east. The problem with that is that cows aren’t very fast. So, the storm catches up with them rather quickly, and without knowing any better, the cows continue to try to outrun it.
But instead, they actually run right along with it, maximizing the amount of pain and time and frustration they experience from that storm!
Humans do the same thing all of the time. We spend so much of our lives constantly trying to avoid the inevitable challenges that come along with the difficult circumstances that our very own choices (and sometimes the choices of others) have led us into.
Waiting always makes it worse.
What bison do, on the other hand, is unique for the animal kingdom. They wait for the storm to cross right over the crest of the peak of the mountaintop, and as the storm rolls over the ridge, they turn and charge directly INTO the storm.
Instead of running east away from it, they run west directly at the storm. By running at the storm they run straight through it, minimizing the amount of time, pain, and frustration they experience.
All of us are dealing with storms in our lives. We don’t get to choose whether or not we have them, but we do get to choose how we respond to those storms…
Which direction are you heading?”
Adapted from Be the Buffalo and Face Life’s Storms
by Rory Vaden
