"Into the Burn" Counsel

I listened this morning to the rebroadcast of the BYU Devotional speech given last Tuesday by
Val Jo Anderson, department chair for Plant and Wildlife Sciences, titled “Into the Burn.”
The title of his devotional came from a command he was given by his crew boss when he was working on a fire crew. While fighting a wildfire, his crew boss saw that the wind was blowing the fire directly toward Anderson and the other members of his crew. “Into the burn,” he yelled at them, directing them to go into the fire to the other side where the fire could not return. By following this counsel, though counterintuitive, Anderson and the other men were saved.
“This was an intense lesson,” Anderson said, “that helped me understand the importance of knowing in advance who you should trust and follow without hesitation, especially when the correct choice may be obscured by our own limited experience or instinctive bias.”

I thought while listening to this speech that there will be numerous times when we as Esperanza stakeholders will have impressions that seem counterintuitive. In other words, reason will tell us that one path seems the most logical while quiet whisperings to our hearts and minds tell us that we should take a different path and go "into the burn." It is critical at these times that we follow the quiet whisperings and not rely on our limited experience or instinctive bias. It can make all the difference.