Signs That Endure
By Judi McLeod
CanadaFreePress.com
Many times throughout the day, the geese are honking their way across the skies outside our windows. It’s as if they want all humans to know that they are on their way south. Their distinctive honking is pure enthusiasm. It takes only a little imagination to think their honking is like calling out to other geese in their signature V-formations, “Only 100 miles to go!” or “Look up at the skies, folks, we’re heading for the sunny south again!”
It was coming upon their characteristics in an Internet write-up that made me an unabiding fan of God’s geese. Their loyalty to each other is truly remarkable.
“When a goose gets sick or is wounded by gunshots, and falls out of formation, two other geese fall out with that goose and follow it down to lend help and protection. They stay with the fallen goose until it is able to fly or until it dies, and only then do they launch out on their own, or with another formation to catch up with their group.” (Buffalo.edu)
It’s not really humans that geese honks are meant to attract.
Geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed, a fact proven not by romantic notions but by science.
In fact, just about everything about geese is based on something we see so little of these days: encouragement of the kind that lifts up others.
“Next fall when you see geese heading south for the winter… flying along in V formation…you might consider what science has discovered as to why they fly that way: (Buffalo.edu).
“As each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in V formation the whole flock adds at least 71% greater flying range, than if each bird flew on its own.
“People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going more quickly and easily because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.
“When the head goose gets tired it rotates back in the wing and another goose flies point. It is sensible to take turns doing demanding jobs…with people or with geese flying south.
“If we have the sense of a goose, we will stand by each other like that. (Reprinted from materials provided by Bonnie J. Collins, EdM, LCSWR)”
Canada has been named both the freest and most
tolerant country in the world, and also one of
the most prosperous and best-run
In an upside-down world where an increasing number of world leaders are selling their populations out, the geese serve as one of nature’s best reminders that some things other than man-made were Creator-made to endure.
The geese also remind us that many things in life on earth come and go.
Yesterday, the day of Justin Trudeau’s inauguration as Canada’s 23th Prime Minister, like many others, I avoided the gloating television coverage of CBC and CTV.
In my neck of the woods, it turned out to be a perfect fall day with temperatures hitting about 70 degrees fahrenheit. The lib-left progressives would call it global warming/climate change. Those not aboard the UN scam would call it fair and clement weather; an early November break.
Can’t help but wonder how many were called to their windows away from the Justin Trudeau Prime Minister Blues when the geese came flying by.
Trudeau is there because even though Canada has been named both the freest and most tolerant country in the world, and also one of the most prosperous and best-run by the Legatum Institute (National Post, Nov. 2, 2015), people who got out to vote were looking for a change—any kind of change—and because the celebrity cult now plays a big hand in elections. Justin T. is the son of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
Still, it is reassuring to know that the Obamas, the Trudeaus, the Merkels and the Camerons, like all politicians, come and go.
Just like their loyalty to the people who put them into power, their tenure is fleeting.
So many citizens trying to make it through Life on Earth are facing new storms.
Geese are never stayed long by storms. They wait them out, hunkering down in copses of woods, only to take flight with the same kind of exuberance the next day.
As the geese overhead migrate to southern destinations this year, millions are now living in countries whose own governments are overwhelming their citizens with foreign migrants, including Sumet, a tiny village in Germany, where 750 ‘refugees’ have been forced on a population of 100, or seven times greater.
While populations being overwhelmed are asking why, their leaders are traveling to visit each other and entertaining with palatial and state dinners of the kind familiar to royalty.
South-bound geese and other signs in nature are the Creator’s way of showing that He’s always there, has been there and always will be.
Things that endure do not include politicians.
So many are out there trying to make their way in a world being overwhelmed by strangers. But no matter what the politicians arrange for us, all to make their lives easier through rigid population control, the sun still comes up each morning, the stars light up the skies at night; the geese continue to enthuse their way south.
Thank You, God, for each day and each night.
Thank You, God, for all those things that endure.