Thursday, December 27th, 2007
geeese
there once was a man, lets call him Bob, that lived not too far from toronto. about a few hours drive north. in a land not so different from Canada.. in a place not too different from waterloo campus where canadian geese ravage the lands at every corner.
well, perhaps not ravage. cause that only happens at waterloo. but there were geese. so if you live in waterloo, i’m sure you can picture this. so back to the man…
one winter. if you can even call it that. the place didn’t receive any snow at all. it was warm when it should’ve been cold. it was wet when there should’ve been snow. and there were geese when there should’ve been….. well just barren land..
but this didn’t concern many people. just Bob. cause he just heard on the forecast there would be a sudden flash snowstorm about to hit the area. and in light of this news he thought about the geese. the geese who were totally unaware of their impending doom. so he thought what would be the best way to get them to migrate…
and his first thoughts were to go and just use body gestures and try to get them to migrate. but he figured it would be too hard for the geese to interpret what he was trying to tell them.
so he wished he was able to talk geese, to tell them about the storm that was coming. so they could understand him. but he thought, they could just think I’m lying. or misinterpret what I was saying.
so finally he wished that he could just become a geese and lead them down south to avoid the storm. to become one of them in order to effectively communicate.
(note: analogy taken with ad libs ..)
how the story ends is up to you, cause its not important.. but what i’ve come to realize during Christmas is that God sent his only son to die for us. Why? So he could save us. So he could remove this impending doom lingering around our lives. I mean he could’ve used clouds to spell it out in the sky for us. Or even just talk ‘human’ and hope we understand. but his ultimate method of communicating to us was through Jesus Christ himself.
to communicate through a human. so that we could understand. just like how the man wanted to transform into a geese to save them. i was meaning to post this on christmas day, but it was all too hectic, but one thing I don’t really do is reflect on the sacrifice God gave us. to realize how well thought out, how well planned and important it is to me.
so next time you see geese, be reminded of Jesus Christ.
Merry Christmas. hope boxing day was successful for most of you