I wondered if there was something else to their dancings. Meanwhile, it seems out there some of their behaviors were also not fully understood yet. I came across people who've been studying them for years and still are. I thought I don't have that long though I love them much. Then reconciling knowledge from The Theology of the Body and Dei Verbum, it seems that we have certain things in common. They have the ability to stand on one leg. Surely, this show the power of their body, but then it seems that for those who do Ballet, it is a move that is part of their dancing routines. Of course, it was not obvious at first until I browsed through the scenes of one of my favorites movies Step Up.
Then, I carried on to the next thing that seemed to be a puzzle about them for the past few years: their migration to Siberia in Russia. I mean no one goes to a place to voluntarily die. News reporters, experts have expressed both their concerns and their opinions at the unexpected arrival of the flamingos in the coldest part of Russia, a trajectory said to be opposite to their regular route. What caught my attention was one comment as seen in the news report below mentioning how the wind led in such direction, or to be more direct fooled them...
So I paused for a moment and directed my focus to the wind, thus approaching it this theologically. I mean I'm on a quest to attempt to look at creation through the eyes of God. In the Holy Writ, there are different passages of God manifesting Himself through the Wind either with God the Father or God the Holy Spirit. In the Old Testament, there is this one particularly in the Old Testament where "... Yahweh changed the wind into a west wind, very strong, which carried the locusts away and swept them into the Sea of Reeds. There was not one locust left in the whole of Egypt..." - Exo 10:19 (NJB)
Could the Father Almighty, the creator of Heaven and Earth, be the one who behind-the-scenes interfered with the flamingos annual routine? Could it be that what He did millenias ago, He repeated but our eyes have so far away from perceiving the signs of time as Pope Benedict XVI would advise that the only pausible explanation was to say that there is been a failure in their orientation mechanism? Could it be that He, the maker of Heaven and Earth, whispered in their ears through the wind? And if it is they had become deaf to the voice of God, He chose to turn their attention back to Him by detaching from what we have come to see in them; experts dancers who seduce one another through dancing. Not that there is anything wrong in that! In fact, I could not help but think that maybe their dancing are also a mean for them to praise the Lord. Who knows? Of course, I am writing from a hypothetical approach as well. If so, then like the rest of us called to go and make disciples of all nations, He dare to pick those He thought would be missionaries by surrendering to His Holy Will. And so as the New Jerusalem Bible narrates about the apostle Paul and his friends' ship in the book of Acts 27:15 "... the ship was caught and could not keep head to wind, so we had to give way to the wind and let ourselves be driven...", then we could suggest that the same for them, missionary flamingos for Siberia, the wildest and coldest place on Earth as described by BBC. Missionaries in a new land who drew attention, caused stirs who will learn to use what they have to conquer the new land like the rest of the species who had to do so. However, not just on their own but by turning to their maker their creator who by the power of the Holy Spirit will inspire them what to do to fill this place for the glory of God. Throughout time and history, the law of Darwin finds its way again and again applying to creatures that they who can adapt to their environment will better survive. Some species have multiplied, and some winter after winter have decreased in number. So, through the eyes of Faith, I must say that their presence there will and could make a difference to that habitat, just as it would change them as well hopefully for the better as they learn all about that land meanwhile establishing themselves. Now how? Time will tell... They've conquered lands where they've reached the million, so let be attentive to the Lord moving through them...
So... does divine revelation (Dei Verbum) makes our reasoning less? or does it prove to be complementary to science, philosophy and else...? Pope Paul VI affirms to us that "... God, the beginning and end of all things, can be known with certainty from created reality by the light of human reason (see Rom. 1:20); but teaches that it is through His revelation that those religious truths which are by their nature accessible to human reason can be known by all men with ease, with solid certitude and with no trace of error, even in this present state of the human race." - Dei Verbum, Par 6.For 'On Dei Verbum - part I', click here...
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