Know Your Seasons

Every year around fall, these majestic birds appear out of nowhere and fill the skies above the dykes. Their honking announces their arrival, and how long they stay really depends on the winter conditions each year. Some years they stay right through winter and leave in late spring for Siberia. This year, as if on cue, they all suddenly took off early in December and headed south. Unknown to most of our seasoned weather forecasters, we were headed for the worse winter on record. For the next month, snow would fall and stay. In a city that is used to heavy rain and green lawns throughout winter, most of the citizens were caught unprepared. Shovels sold out, they used up all our supply of snow melt and tire shops couldn’t restock snow tires fast enough.

If snow geese were human, they probably had the last laugh.
Perhaps we can learn a thing or two from these simple creatures.

“The stork knows the time of her migration, as do the turtledoves, the swallow, and the crane. They all return at the proper time each year. But not my people! They do not know what the Lord requires of them.” Jeremiah 8:7