learning to fly

"life is a preparation for eternity." Rick Warren

This week at Tabernacle we are going to investigate what it means to "learn to fly".

Søren Kierkegaard the Danish religious philosopher and minister, wrote a multitude of works in the middle of the 19th-century. Among his papers, is a story he wrote entitled the Tame Geese. In this story he asks one to imagine that these geese could, like us, talk and think and do the kinds of things that we do.

The geese went to church every week. Each week they were inspired by a powerful, motivating sermon by the high goose. The sermon always went the same. The high goose would tell the assembled geese of their high destiny and about what a high goal the Creator had appointed geese for he had given them wings. As he said all this, the geese would honk and squawk their approval. The geese curtsied and the ganders bowed their heads in honor of the great words. With their wings, the high goose told them, they could fly anywhere they wanted around the world. They were most pleased to hear this. And each week after church, as they dispersed, the geese would ...waddle ... home.

I want to fly. Some glad morning when this life is o'er. I'll fly away.