The Dove

I am thinking of her today.

I had a housewarming gift waiting for me when I moved into my new home back in early August. A beautiful dove and her nest. It is funny because she was not there when I did the walk throughs before and after the home inspection. She moved in when I did.

Do you believe in signs? I sure do. I see them all the time in various forms. 

She stayed until her babies hatched. I prayed for her and her babies when there were thunderstorms that rolled in, and she had to protect them from the elements. I watched her being rained upon. She was a warrior! She endured, she was strong, she did everything for them. I saw her go back and forth, tending to their needs. She always made me smile. I often talked to her to make sure she was ok. She wasn't afraid of me either. She never flew away when I was near. She let me watch her bravery and determination. It was so special. She loved them so much. 

The dove represents peace of the deepest kind. It is a spiritual messenger, a maternal symbol that helps us to go about our lives calmly and with purpose.

I will always think of her. 

Her nest is still up there, now vacant. 

...I really should buy a ladder. 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Baby Eczema: What Has Changed the Trajectory of our Lives

Image
If I could sum up our lives in one word, it would probably be chaos. I haven't wanted it to be that way, but it has just been that way. Since becoming a mother, I have felt like the biggest failure on the face of the planet. Plenty of experiences have really pushed me to the edge as well. These past almost four years have been the hardest of my life. There are people who claim that they are single parents but have tons of help. They just like the title. Me, I am really a single parent. I don't have help when it comes to my daughter. My mother is the most toxic person that I refuse to be around my child unless supervised. It wasn't always that way until the last experience I had with her showed me just how detrimental it would be to expose my daughter to her negativity any further. It's funny how all of this has followed me all my life until now. I won't allow toxic individuals to be in our lives. I won't hesitate to burn bridges if those bridges are better off b...
Read more

Domestic Abuse Happens to Anyone

Image
“Fuck you.”  These two words were the deal breaker for me. You can’t take it back after you say it either. And if someone is unwilling to communicate at a later time, you reach an impasse. An understanding cannot be made no matter how much you want to try to make it work. This is a main reason I didn’t go back. I grew up seeing the destruction of what my parents did to each other and I knew that I did not want that for my marriage. It had nothing to do with me. The cycle of abuse that he endured surely taught him that it was acceptable to talk to a person he “loved” in that manner. It becomes an addiction or many addictions in his case, in various forms to treat people like that, too. Whatever healing does not take place, you carry it with you and at any point in time, it can become unleashed. So let me ask you, are you going to hold it against someone for that? Why? It is only when a person is ready to do the work on themselves that a person can begin to heal the laye...
Read more

Finding My Voice: The First Performance

Image
When my sister and I were little girls, my mother put us in piano lessons. We learned how to play various songs and would go home to practice in preparation for the recital we would be a part of to show our family what we learned. I remember my mother put us in these cute light pink ruffley dresses. It was the 80's. Those ruffles were on all of the dresses. It is one of just a few memories I have from my childhood that has stuck with me to this day. The irony of this is that the exact place I did that piano recital when I was a little girl, was the exact place that I performed for the first time, vocally, yesterday. Musical theater is something I've always wanted to do. And it is something I've been terrified to do at the same time. I could barely hold the mic when I was singing my verse and bridge of the song. It became so heavy that I was forced to hold it with two hands as to not drop it. This could possibly be the most important moment in time that I could ever ...
Read more