The Modern-Day Boy Who Cried Wolf

There was once a boy who cried wolf. On one specific occasion, he cried to me asking, “Don’t I deserve to be understood? Don’t I deserve love?”

When I offered him what he desired, he did not receive it. It takes love and understanding to receive love and understanding. When we allow fear to block love, we are unable to receive. We then perceive the love in fear as if it is the fear itself. Sometimes there is fear of inadequacy, of not believing we deserve it because we have attracted suffering when seeking it in the past. Sometimes there is fear of being manipulated by a wolf in sheep’s clothing, of being consumed. A fear is a fear is a roadblock to love.

I did and still do understand his fear of wolves in sheep’s clothing. All boys and girls fear them and cry over them until we realize they are just in our heads if and when we allow them to get into our heads, just like the skeletons in our closets and the ghosts under our beds. This boy had encountered what he perceived as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He’d also encountered what he perceived as good and deserving sheep that were too good to stick around the lost sheep he perceived himself to be. The world inside his head was full of wolves and of sheep of varying degrees of good and deserving, yet the world at his source was one where only equally good sheep wandered about their given paths and no wolves existed. And the source had written the same one and only message of love that illuminates all paths to source upon the hearts of every sheep, so no sheep would be lost.

No one can save the boy who cries wolf, because the only wolf is the one he has created in his mind. It is only that wolf that presents the danger of being devoured. Because he has created this fearful creature and expressed his fears to others, he then fears the others could be wolves in sheep’s clothing pretending to save him but wanting to devour him. But it doesn’t matter whether they are wolf or sheep, because they still cannot save him nor devour him. They do not have that power. That power is his alone. Only he can save him from himself. Only he can choose whom he makes his master from the choices within him. Deep within him at his source, he can remember from long ago when the shepherd gave him clear instruction on how to avoid wolves. That understanding is within him.

The understanding and love that he desires has always been his. His source will continue to guide other sheep to cross his path, and some will have an understanding and love for themselves and thus for him too. But he will not be able to receive and to understand and love in return until he’s understood and loved himself. In his own time on his own path, he will come to that understanding and love of himself that puts his fears into perspective and illuminates his path as one that does not contain any wolves or danger. He will see that all the understanding and love he has ever desired is within himself, and he will come to the understanding also that there are others reflecting this love back at him from the outside looking in.

When this time comes, he will have the ability to reciprocate the same. He will also have the understanding within him that the shepherd gave him long ago to differentiate between the sheep that have currently lost their way from the ones that share his way, the way of understanding and loving oneself first. If he desires a partner to walk the path ahead alongside him, he will then be able to engage in such a partnership with a special someone that just happens to have found this themselves and desire this partnership too, when times collide and become one. This synchronicity can only occur when both sheep love their whole-heartedly found sheep selves, are walking the path of love that their source shepherd has written upon their hearts and want to share that love between one another.

I am grateful to have met this boy and to glimpse the light that often flowed in love from within him whenever he was not consumed by the fears in his mind. Because, while we each have the same source and the same love within us, it shines from us just as light through a kaleidoscope held in different positions. We each give off a unique beauty that blesses those who see and accept our beauty in the spirit of love. I am not concerned with whether or not I will be a special someone to him. I am fully aware that when timing is off with two people that it rarely collides in unity at a later point in their lifetimes.

Rarely do relationships or partnerships last in this world of the over-active minds. Often it is not a person’s time to be in lasting relationship, because they are not yet capable of reciprocating understanding and love, because they have not found understanding and love for themselves within. So many people feel lonely and afraid, because they have not entered such a relationship with themselves. Often these people seek to fill this void externally. However, once they hold the awareness that there is fullness within, are listening to their inner guidance system with the message of love from there source to guide their way, and are willing to share this inner adventure outwardly with another in a spirit of no-fear, THEN it is their time for building external connections that can last the test of time.

Only we know when it is our time. And when it is, there is no such thing as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and the boy has no wolves to cry over. He holds the power to free his mind to the love within himself, to recognize this love in others. He is safe and secure under the guidance of his shepherd.

When two recognize their love within one another, a special synchronous reciprocity occurs where love flows as it is intended to. Whether through partnership or friendship, we are intended to share the love with one another.

Seeking resolution and peace are all good, but we won’t find our peace outside of ourselves. We must search our intentions here as well, as we could be searching for acceptance outside of ourselves. We need to be sure we are okay with not receiving that, and that we seek peace with others with the intention of finding peace with ourselves, by making sure we speak our truths authentically as best we can. That is where I find my peace within. But peace is not love. And to ever find peace, we must first find love within… understanding, forgiveness, compassion for ourselves first and foremost.

The shepherd has many sheep. May we find ours in our time. May we not suffer along the way, but may we find happiness and growth in our “mistakes”. May we realize there really are no mistakes, only lessons in love. May we realize that fear and fearful creatures only exist in our choice to fear them, and that we hold the power deeper within at an unlimited energy source of love that enables us the ability to choose love over fear. May we all be in love with ourselves so that we may receive and give love to others… give the understanding, forgiveness, and compassion that we have within. May we all be at peace within so that we may collectively achieve peace on earth.

P.S. I hope you enjoyed my allegorical commentary inspired by a variety of spiritual teachings I’ve picked up along my path that I hold dear to my heart within.