Dove and Window

[Matthew Farrelly]

Hello,

I am sending this along to you b/c I thought that you might find it meaningful and symbolic.  A dove apparently hit our window sometime in the last week (it has survived, thankfully).   My hypothesis was that it was basking in the sun in the dirt and when it hit the window it left its impression with the dust.  However, I have learned that doves have a sort of plumage dust, and this likely came off when it hit.  

Anyway, apart from the fact that it is really cool in and of itself (it is so detailed!), I thought that it was a symbolic image:  our persons are to be transparent - clean - so that God's light and his Spirit can pass through uninhibited.

Happy Eastertide!

Matthew
--

Matthew Farrelly
Upper School Bible and Logic Teacher
Covenant Classical School, Naperville, IL
www.covenantclassicalschool.org

Ph: 630-441-8108 

“Study simply cannot happen until we are willing to be subject to the subject matter.  We must submit to the system.  We must come as student, not teacher.  Not only is study directly dependent upon humility, but it is conducive to it.  Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.”  - Richard Foster

"He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.  He that to what he sees, adds observation, and to what he reads, reflection, is in the right road to knowledge, provided that in scrutinizing the hearts of others, he neglects not his own."  - Caleb Colton