I've found myself using this axiom more and more recently. It comes from what Emilio Estevez says, as he plays Billy the Kid in the movie Young Guns. The phrase reminds me of the Ice Coffee: Fully Loaded advert on TV where the camera is trying to focus on a guy, wearing a backpack, standing ina farm yard as a hurricane bears down on him. He takes a gulp of the drink and then pulls the rip cord... embraces the whirlwind so to speak.
Ministry, life can be like a whirlwind at times. It feels out of control and dangerous and uncertain and you can't see what is ahead, good or bad. So you have a choice! You can flee the oncoming whirlwind, retreat to the safety of disengagement, or you can trust in God, as the guy on the ad trusted in his parachute, and embrace the confusion, pain, discomfort, to learn what God is wanting to teach you and to learn what is on the other side of the whirlwind.
Be a leader who embraces the whirlwind!
