Facing The Storm To Survive

A cowboy was once asked, "What important thing have you learned from your experience on the range?"

"The Herefords taught me one of life's most important lessons," he replied.  "We used to breed cattle for a living, but the winter storms would take an awful toll.  Again and again after a severe storm we would find most of our stock piled up against the fences, dead.  They would turn their backs in the icy blasts and slowly drift downward twenty miles until the fences stopped them.  There they just piled up and died.

"But the Herefords were different.  They would head straight into the wind and slowly walk the other way until they came to the upper boundary fence, where they stood still facing the storm.  We always found them alive and well.  They saved themselves by facing the storm!"

- Roy B. Zuck, The Speaker's Quote Book (Christian Literature Crusade 1997)