The Birds got it right.
My gym is on the second floor of a hotel and on the lanai, where the dreaded ab-crunchers are, you can see right into the tops of the palm trees planted down below. Between my tasteful grunts, I spotted two doves sitting next to each other on a gracefully drooping frond. I watched as they lovingly groomed each other and huddled close in the morning coolness (it was 5:30 am…).
“Remarkable,” I thought, as I noted that one was pure white and the other grey and black all over; “their color means nothing to them.” I tried to see which was the male and which the female (making the usual hetero-sexist assumption), but couldn’t tell the difference. Not in their bodies, or in their behaviors. Granted, I’m not an ornithologist, so maybe their gender subtleties escaped me. But maybe, too, like their color, they weren’t relating to each other on the basis of gender traits. They just were together, enjoying the moment, being gentle and caring, sharing their life.
In these respects, I think the birds got it right: color doesn’t matter. And maybe all the other stuff doesn’t matter, either–age, sex, economic status, caste, religion. It looked to me like the real joy came in experiencing their togetherness and the affection that was passed so freely. I guess what matters is the love that is shared; as one of my favorite Fred Small songs says at the end: “And the only measure of the life that you live will be the love you leave behind when your gone…”
a beautiful observation…thank you, Rev. Sky!
A love vibration, as symbolized so eloquently by the bird gathering, reveals the Cosmic Wisdom that is constantly dawning all around us. It is up to us to open our eyes (our hearts) to See in Truth…and in so doing, Unity manifests in our world. Thank you, Rev. Sky!
Once again, as if through the eyes of a child, you see what everything has to teach us. Sometimes when I slow down and take in all of God’s Glory I see lessons and blessons all around. Thanks for sharing. Keep up on the abs as well I love hating them as well.
Doves and pigeon are not sexually dimorphic. A technical term that means it is impossible to distiguished the male from the female purely from physical appearances. In zoos DNA testing is used. In many species of birds it is also impossible to tell male from female based on behavoir. This is because both male and female share equally in life’s duties. Take the Victoria Crowned Pigeon for instance. Both male and female build the large nest, both incubate the egg, both fed the chick, both preen the chick. and both male and female crowned pigeon will slap the zookeper really hard with their wing if we get too close to their kid.
“On the wings of a snow white dove, He brings His True Pure Love…” from this song line, the love that we ALL receive; if only we OPEN our eyes and hearts. Many Blessings!!!