I was stopped in traffic on my way to work by a row of geese that was walking slowly yet deliberately across a major thoroughfare to a pool of water that had collected in a ditch on the other side of the street after a heavy rain. At first I was annoyed by the inconvenience to my commute, but then I became fascinated by the fact that each of the geese in the gaggle directly followed the one before it, and they would not be deterred until they reached their desired destination.
The instinct of a goose is to follow. Our instinct as disciples of Christ should be to follow, as well—follow the disciples before us, and follow the leading of Jesus. I think of the first disciples who dropped everything they were doing when Jesus said to each of them, “Follow me.” They followed right behind the Lord and went where he went, spreading the message of the Gospel. My prayer is that we recapture that same willingness and determination to follow Jesus faithfully and invite others to follow behind us to our final destination—life together in heaven with him through his death and resurrection.
