It was one of those really nice late
summer nights. Chores were done, and we were walking toward the house, enjoying
that satisfying feeling of having finished another day, looking forward to the evening meal and relaxing a
bit before retiring. The night was clear
and the moon was bright.
Then we heard it, a flock of geese on
their flight south to spend winter days in south Texas. We heard them and when
we looked carefully, we saw the flock, dark against the moon, flying and
honking (I guess talking to each other – and what do they talk about? We’re
over Wisconsin now, another 20 hours?)
And
my brother, who had just memorized it for class, recited the ending of Bryan’s “To
A Waterfowl”
“He who from zone to zone,
Guides through the boundless sky thy certain
flight.
In the long way that I must trace alone,
Will lead my steps aright”.
Such
flights still go on, but mostly unheard in this noisy world. But the guiding
still works, even though modern man has discovered he had better turn off certain
skyscraper building lights in Chicago and Detroit because they tended to confused
flocks.
That
is the difference I want to mention with care. Our world is a noisy place, with
many confusing notes to confuse and often imperil our faith. St. Paul speaks
about lawlessness. A friend’s blog says of this, “Men everywhere ignore and mock
God’s laws, ethics, and morals, and God’s way of life. Today, in the way in which
marriage is completely redefined, especially here in the United States. Or in
the way human life is being mocked and murder is made legitimate, a right guaranteed
by the Constitution and Supreme Court. I speak, of course, about the millions
of infants murdered every year through abortion. The Lord Jesus taught us what
to expect from mouths of false prophets in the last days.”
Jesus
said, “And many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many. . .but he
that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” Matt.24,11.13.
May
the Lord direct, guide, and keep you in this noisy world.
GPD 2/20/14
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