Have you noticed the ducks lately? Up here in Canada, as they do every fall, when the days get colder and darker, the ducks begin gathering more and more in groups and start flying in formation. While they are flying, they talk to each other by “honking.” Yet, when they settle down on the ground, they don’t talk to each other.
As it gets colder and darker, the ducks fly higher and higher until one day they’re gone! No one observes them go they’re just gone!
Let us talk of heavenly things together, and then—one day—we too will be gone!
D. B. Hayhoe