do geese remind you of heaven?

i ve read a book written by Louis Tartaglia,MD named The Great Wing. He describes geese\'s immigration as a spiritual journey,the adventure of the soul with the company and help of brothers and sisters towards God\'s hug . what makes me sad about birds\' immigration is that there are a lot of hunters around who kill them during their flights ,without mercy and without need for food.Just for having fun...:(

I never really noticed migrating geese, because they have forgotten how to migrate in my area. Too many kids with bread crumbs feeding them at the lake. The only moral I see in that is... don\'t take the easy road. You\'ll forget your destination and probably mess up somebody\'s lawn. on another tangent... When I was in Ethiopia, I rescued a Czech man who was separated from the team of ornithologists who were tracking a collar of one of their tagged birds. He later told me that they evenutally found the collar on the wall of a hut. Some guy saw the bird because of the collar, hit it with a rock from his slingshot, ate the bird, and hung up the shiny trophy as a decoration. I will leave it to someone else to draw up some life lesson to be learned from that story, if any

Dear Misha, I like your reply better (than John\'s). Don\'t get me wrong (John Chan sometimes states things exactly right, as a child would). (On this one, John is a lot like me: thinking too much, and when one thinks too much, one gets a bit lost in thought, and become cynical and disenchanted with life, and loses one\'s child-like edge). The more I learn, the more I learn that innocence is superior to knowledge, but that no human being is superior to any other human being. Anyway, I love geese. Pardon me, I am not meaning anything pantheistic about all this. Nature is not God, but to insult nature is to insult the Creator that made it; nothing in the world is as good or perfect as God, but every created thing is a reflection of the Creator\'s (Maker\'s) wisdom. It\'s just that we are not (I am not) wise enough to see as much beauty in spiders, snakes, worms, grubs, sharks ... as I am able to see in furry mammals, foxes, leopards, tigers, pandas, ferrets, otters, weasels, rabbits, cats, dogs, and other fur-bearing critters .... I love all mammals! I don\'t much like insects; I like birds; but I like mammals better than I like birds. Go figure. Take care. God bless all us creatures. Sincerely, Scott God bless Misha and John. In Erie PA Take care all.

I do often find myself reminded of God in nature...especially certain birds. For me, living in the desert southwest for most of my life, it would be the Canyon Wren. Search around the internet for a recording of their song, and imagine it echoing through a canyon, and you\'ll see what I mean :grin:

I once worked in a building on the edge of a nature preserve. In the spring we not only got a lot of honking, we would also get the sound of the Canada geese getting a running start to take off flying from our flat roof. After a while it begins to get on your nerves! I also had to be constantly on guard against slipping on goose poop when I was walking near the building. They are beautiful in the sky, but the reality of living with a lot of them twelve months out of the year inclines one to a less romantic view.

Then again, john\'s messages are funny! You know why? I suspect they are MEANT to be! ;-) Happy New Year!

Are messages funny here? I guess! What I meant to say about geese flying south each year is, \"Dear Canada geese, honk if you love Jesus!\" They honk, and that\'s their natural way of saying \"praise God\" ISTM. Anyway, if we as humans don\'t praise God, even the animals praise God by being the animals God created them all to be. We had better learn how to praise God not merely with words but with all our lives. It is more important to leave mistakes behind and ask forgiveness and move on to better days, and hope God will have mercy on us. We (I) need God\'s mercy, above all else. (I happen to think, in a way, animals are a remind of the innocent of God\'s creation in the beginning, and how God created everything \"very good\" (Genesis). \"And God saw the light, and behold, it was good.\" God created geese, too. Good geese.