Close to Home by John McPherson for July 12, 2023

I hate when the leader breaks wind, it makes my eyes water!

Hmmm… God jokes, goose jokes or breakin’ wind jokes. Choices…

Geese… a.k.a Canadian Attack Chickens.

This brings out an interesting point concerning the character of God. He typically does not “mansplain” or over explain things, but rather leaves the majority of things as a mystery for us to discover, see Job beginning in 38:4 for some classic examples. It’s only when things get so bad as we turn to self destruction that He intervenes.

I thought that when the lead goose ‘breaks the wind’, that is when the other geese spread out from behind him.

Just because he’s omniscient, he thinks he knows everthing…

Um, wait.

Be carelful there, bud. That halo might get dimmed!

He’s describing the effect of the wake. Does that mean that He’s “woke”?

Can’t wait to get to Heaven so that I’ve be able to walk on water…….vapor.

I’d really appreciate a bit of godsplaining about the source and purpose of the platypuses.

That’s funny because when I break wind everyone runs.

“When you do things right, people will wonder if you did anything at all.”

And here I thought Breaking Wind had a whole different meaning as do most of the other commentators here :-)

He said, “breaks wind”. snerk

Yeah but will you listen? Lol

God: I heard that!

Has anyone ever contemplated the realm of Heaven? They never show Heaven with the streets paved of Gold, or all the Mansions that everyone will get. Lets not even think about the 99 virgins. Every single religion comes from Faith! Every Faith comes from a Story. A story is a description of imaginary people and events, which is written or told in order to entertain. Lets look at the Bible.God can not be overridden.God created Man and woman who had 2 boys. Incest is forbidden. These 4 populated the earth? (some will say the devil made people) that would override God.Noah built a ship big enough to house 2 of every animal and captured all these animals within days and they sailed for 40 days and nights. What did the animals eat? 15 Billion Years ago there was nothing, Yet there was GOD!What happened to all the Greek and Roman Gods? There are five key elements to every story: plot, setting, characters, point of view, and conflict. Whether your children realize it or not, they naturally include all these elements when they’re telling a story to their families or their best friend, but once the person who hears it tells it, it always grows= Stories of the Bible!Now I know people are going to send me Chapter and verse, but keep in mind those were discussed long before the written word. The language they were written in has been translated over and over again, sometimes there are no words for translation, so we stick something in, which brings us to my last paragraph. I can promise you anything in death, who will hold me to it?

And they take turns at the front like bicyclists.

The leading goose breaks wind, and the following geese stay well to the side …

Sorry, god doesn’t intervene because he doesn’t exist. We are responsible for our actions, not a myth.

They’ll do that when the lead goose had chili burritos.

I doubt that the Almighty needs to wear glasses.

Geese fly in “v” formation but one side is always longer than the other. Do you know why? Because there are more geese on that side.

This reminds me of an episode of Supernatural where Sam and Dean are talking to Chuck, aka God, about his flailing effort to have a conciliatory talk with his problem child, Lucifer:

Sam: “Could you try being a little lest lordly?”

Chuck (confused): “But… I’m The Lord.”