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    As the Geese Fly
    As the Geese Fly
    As the Geese Fly
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    As the Geese Fly

    By Phyllis R Spence

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    When I needed God to show up in my life and let me know that He was listening and knew what was going on in my frazzled mind and heart, He did. I can say that it was in the most unusual way. I saw a beautiful flock of geese fly over the freeway in front of my car. I had seen geese flying many times before in my life but never like this. It was at that moment that God spoke up and told me just what I needed to hear. We read in His Word of some very interesting and unique ways that He chose to speak to men and women. But does He still speak to His children today in this high-tech world of our push-button society? Yes, He does! Warning: after you read this book you will never look at a flock of geese in the same way again!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateApr 18, 2012
    ISBN9781449742737
    As the Geese Fly
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    Phyllis R Spence

    PHYLLIS SPENCE is a wife of forty-three years. She jokingly says that she told her husband Guy before they were married, that if he ever left her she would be an “X-Spence” in more ways than one! Brian, Phyllis’s son, and his wife Jodie live in Wake Forrest, North Carolina. Brian and Jodie are followers of Christ, best friends and love living life together. Phyllis and her husband had the privilege of opening up their home and their hearts to young women from Venezuela in 2001. Yurami Lezama came to the United States to study music. Phyllis and Guy quickly became her American family. She is married to David and they have a beautiful little boy named Michael, who call Phyllis “Lolly” and Guy “Pop.” Music is a huge part of who Phyllis is. After twenty-seven years out of high school, Phyllis went to college and now holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music. She graduated cum laude from Piedmont Baptist College. She teaches private piano and voice lessons to children and adults. She has been the director of the Children’s Choir at Grace Baptist Temple in Winston-Salem North Carolina for many years. God has opened doors for Phyllis to share her enthusiasm for the Gospel and her love for the Lord. She speaks in a refreshing and humorous way.

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      As the Geese Fly - Phyllis R Spence

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Foreword

      Introduction

      The Background:

      A God of Pictures & Object Lessons

      Bushes, Donkeys, and Walls

      Mighty High Flying

      God Sent the Geese

      Music to My Ears

      Lessons from the Honkers

      V is for Victory

      Who Gets to Fly Out Front?

      If You’re Going to Honk

      Permanent Partners, Precious Parents

      When One Goes Down

      Stay Away From Asphalt

      Widening Your Inner Circle: Feathered Friends

      You Take the Young One

      Clearing the Hot Tub

      My Name is Joan

      Goose Sense

      My First SS Check!

      My Favorite Bird Story

      Pride Never Pays

      You Get What You Pay For

      The Biggest Decision You Ever Made?

      The Bird Necessities

      Make Room for Answered Prayer

      Grandmother’s Apron

      Braided Blessing

      Mom’s New Car

      The Longest Sunday of My Life

      Your Seeds Will Find You Out

      Isaac’s Dime

      The Heavens Declare, the Geese Honk, and Other Ways God Shows Up

      I Can’t Get the Gate Open

      He Sells Seashells

      Don’t Make a Deal with God

      Ruth’s Shoes

      Butterfly Beauty

      To Guy

      My best friend and partner for forty-three years.

      To Brian and Jodie

      How precious in this world you are to me. You have given me the joy of being called

      Mom.

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      To my peanut butter and jelly friend,

      Felicia, who has given me so much material for my books!

      It is Lucy and Ethel all over again.

      Acknowledgments

      I want to say a very special thank you to Brian, Jodie, Celeste, Vera, Guy, and Felicia, who have spent hours reading and making sure that what I was saying was said right. Thank you guys for letting me have so much of your valuable time.

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      Thanks to Dr. Linda Felker, without whose help and expertise this book would not have been possible. You are a most generous friend.

      Thanks to you all from my heart.

      Foreword

      My mother has lived an extraordinary life. She was raised in a junkyard with her sister and three brothers. Early in her life, she had dreams of singing gospel music. She sang in several gospel groups and cut various records with those groups as well as solo albums. Although she had offers from professional gospel groups, she turned them down to become a wife and mother.

      After a successful career as a stay-at-home mom, music called her once again. After putting off college for twenty-nine years, she enrolled in Piedmont Baptist College to pursue a degree in music and graduated cum laude at the age of forty-nine. Rather than simply entertain with her beautiful voice, she has poured her love for music into others, teaching piano and voice to young and old alike.

      Recently, the stage has called my mother once again. However, this time it has called her to speak rather than sing. She has unexpectedly become a sought-after speaker at ladies’ conferences. Unlike music, which she pursued, public speaking has pursued her. It turns out she can deliver a message both with and without a tune. As an extension of her public speaking, she has become a writer and again proven that she is successful at whatever she sets her mind to accomplish.

      Her life has not always been easy. When she was eighteen, she went through the windshield of a car and spent months on crutches and undergoing dental and facial surgeries. In her late thirties, she was diagnosed with polymyositis and rheumatoid arthritis, severe muscle and joint diseases. I have personally seen a time when she could not get out of the bed because of the pain these diseases inflicted.

      In addition, she went through severe emotional trauma as she cared for her parents after they both developed dementia and her father succumbed to severe Alzheimer’s disease. My mom is still looking for healing from this emotional trauma. However, I am happy to report that God healed her from the diseases of polymyositis and rheumatoid arthritis. These are not diseases for which doctors offer the hope of a cure. However, the Great Physician can and will cure any disease or pain when it is within His plan to do so, and I am glad that it was in His plan to heal Mom.

      Through her life’s highs and lows, her successes and failures, and her moments of joy and pain, my mother has always sought to put God first and to give Him praise regardless of the circumstances. In each event of her life, she attempts to discover God’s truth and His purposes. The stories in this book are a sample of the events that have comprised her journey through life thus far and of her desire to know God better through these journeys. I hope that you enjoy this book and that it will encourage you to look for God in the daily events of your own life.

      Introduction

      Have you ever been told, You don’t have the sense God gave a goose? It’s an old expression, and if someone is saying it about you, it probably means you’ve done something silly or downright stupid.

      In your mind, can you envision our feathered friends? If so, you might be thinking that statement is absolutely true. Here they go, waddling about aimlessly with their long, skinny necks. Right on top of the long, skinny neck is a teeny, tiny head. How could a head that small carry a brain large enough for making it in the world as a goose? How much sense could a creature like that have?

      More than you can imagine.

      The beautiful Canada geese have been such a thrilling part of my life for a long while now. I have taken these creatures straight into my heart, and they’re under lock and key. Believe it or not, these geese have become a vital part of my spiritual walk.

      I can hear you wondering, What in the world is she talking about? Geese are nothing more than messy, noisy, rude, and sassy birds. By the way, did I mention they’re messy?

      After you have read As the Geese Fly, I think you, too, might begin looking at my geese in a whole new light. You might not think about them as rude or mean. You might not mind the mess. You just might begin to look up every time you hear the geese as they fly overhead.

      So if you are ever told that you don’t have the sense God gave a goose, then you can smile and nod. You will know the truth about our wonderful, awkward, out-of-proportion, highly intelligent friends.

      Lord, if You give me the sense You gave a goose, that will be fine with me!

      The Background:

      A God of Pictures & Object Lessons

      Bushes, Donkeys, and Walls

      God wanted Moses to deliver a message to Pharaoh. He spoke to Moses through a burning bush. He spoke through a bush that would not burn up and to a man who would not shut up. Moses just kept right on talking to God and telling Him all the reasons he could not possibly do what God was asking him to do. So the Lord gave him another object lesson (as if a bush on fire and yet not burning to ashes wasn’t enough). He asked Moses to throw down his staff. He did, and it became a snake. God then told Moses to pick the snake up by the tail. Oh my! It became a staff again!

      God didn’t want Balaam to go with the princes of Moab. Balaam couldn’t get his donkey to keep walking down the road. One might have thought the donkey was simply doing what donkeys do best: being stubborn. When that donkey started speaking to him, you can bet that Balaam was the one listening then.

      Moses heard God’s voice through the fire of a burning bush. God used a talking donkey to get Balaam’s attention, a donkey that spoke as clearly as any person. Basically, God can use anything He chooses to get our attention. If these examples aren’t enough to convince a person that God is in charge and can do whatever He chooses to do through you or in spite of you, then I don’t know what could!

      Hebrews 1:1 puts it like this: God has spoken to people throughout time in many different ways. One of these ways is through pictures. He realizes that many of us, including me, are the kind of people who need a picture, a visual aid. If you want me to know it, understand it, get it, or believe it, then show me a picture or an object lesson. Bring on the burning bush or the

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