The imprint

We watched a delightful movie this week called Fly Away Home. It was about orphaned geese raised by a 13 year old girl and how she helped these geese fly south for the winter. They used a method called imprinting. Seems that geese and other birds imprint their lives from birth and everything they learn is through this imprinting. The first living thing they see becomes their parent and they learn by watching the parent, even flying south for the winter. Apparently many birds lose their parents through hunters, climate, or building developments. They have a natural desire to fly south but they do not know the way because the parent who helps with the imprinting is gone. Thus the birds get lost, confused, fall into the hands of unprincipled people or are destroyed by hungry animals. However, once the birds are imprinted they fly south and miraculously return to the origin of their birth.

The story has many amazing aspects. The ability of these small creatures to fly a 1,000 miles a day. Their perfect imprinting that causes them to live the life designed for them. The ability to fly back to the exact origin of their birth. Their innocent and complete trust in who they decided was their parent.

The correlation loomed at me. We have a parent. He is God the creator. We have an imprint. We are created in Him image. We have a direction. It is called life in Christ. We can fly through a lifetime. It is called walking in the Spirit. We fly to a designated home. The home is called heaven. We are asked to completely trust our parent. Our parent is Emmanuel, The Mighty God, The Prince of Peace, The Everlasting Father.

Let His imprint remain on your heart and life now and forever, so that you may always find your way home.