Maybe it's a sign..... - Al-Anon Family Group

ELEKTRAWMN · Senior Member

Maybe it's a sign.....

Pushka · ~*Service Worker*~

Awww .. neat little bird thanks for the share!! :)

Doozy · Senior Member

Wow Kat! That is quite a story and I'm so glad you included a picture. I think what you have there is not just any bird, it is a DOVE! Of all the birds in the world, the dove is probably the most amazing symbol of peace. In the Bible, a dove brought the olive branch to Noah as a symbol that the flood waters were receding and there was hope and peace again. Very powerful! White doves are especially symbolic of divinity, peace and love. That's just amazing. Thanks for sharing and wishing you well ~

Doozy

youfoundme · ~*Service Worker*~

I love birds, and I do believe animals are telling us things... great share :) Thank you! Love that photo too! So cool huh? I wonder what kind of bird that is? Looks like a dove.

ELEKTRAWMN · Senior Member

Yes... it's a ring neck dove. Odd and exciting at the same time. I'll take it as my sign. Things are definitely looking up. I'm ready for the peace. :)

Sweet Stanley · ~*Service Worker*~

Great share. I got goose bumps reading it.

After my Dad passed away, my brother had a pelican follow him (my brother has a small boat) around the lake one day, all day. After my brother docked his boat and was walking back to his camper, it swooped low over his camper and was gone. A sign? We like to think so as my Dad loved pelicans.

Just my 2 cents... I would take that as a sign. smile

MeTwo2 · ~*Service Worker*~

I thoroughly enjoyed that story .. thanks for sharing .. it's so inspiring .. uplifting !!

Jerry F · ~*Service Worker*~

ELEKTRA...I don't have a picture of mine but yours is an albino pidgeon...it was mine that was a dove...not a ring neck but a St. Francis of Assisi dove that wasn't at all common to my yard and didn't have at leg band to show that it was domestic or tamed.

Mine appeared in 1992...19 years ago one morning while I was in pain regarding an alcoholic relationship (another one after another one etc etc) and I was going off on God hammering on the wheel of my van and swearing (God don't mind cause God don't take language that seriously...just that we make contact) anyhow as I left my van to go into my house this St. Francis of Assisi dove (tan with a black cross down it's back and across it's wings) walked up to me and when I reached down to pick it up it walked into my hands. Really. I use to raise homers so I knew how to hold it and it was perfect. After a while I launched it and it flew into the branches of a cedar in my yard and I went inside to end the day. In the morning a sponsee called me in the same condition I was in the van so I stopped him and told him to listen to my "dove" story. He was wowwed by it and hung up. I went outside to go drive to work and looked around and no bird and so I went into second guessing myself as a crazy man and then also telling someone else about it. I was pissed at myself until I looked at the eave over my front door of my house. There was the dove. It had been there all night waiting...just like your pidgeon. We were being "Attended to" (how I describe it) by an instrument of the creator...HP...God. The dove is the international sign of peace and so HP was just telling me I needed to be peaceful.

I get to work and my sponsee calls me and asks me to describe the dove again and I ask why. Seems that after he hung up from our conversation he recontacted the disease and by the time he got to work he had a major inflamation, whole body, mind, spirit and emotions and went off on his pregnant secretary who fled the office crying. In a remore and rage he went out to his truck to leave and there was the same dove waiting for him and it did just what your pidgeon did for you; closed the gap between it and my sponsee; Mike and just looked and abided until he calmed down and went into peace. His rage and confusion settled and left and he handled this remorse the way the program teaches...with a 10th step to his secretary. The white pidgeon is also a sign of peace and during peace celebrations they release 100s of them into the air at one time.

That one sitting on your railing is an unmistakable sign...of peace and also that you have a Higher Power very very close to you at the moment. Might be good to listen, listen, listen for what is going on around you. You're special...HP says so.

(((((hugs))))) smile

flopadopilus · ~*Service Worker*~

I love the story and a dove of all birds to me is a sign for sure! Keep up the good work.

ELEKTRAWMN · Senior Member

After posting my story last night, had a long conversation with ABF. Wasn't a very good one. Another one filled with blame and misunderstand.

I'll be darned if that bird wasn't waiting for me outside this morning. No lie.

usedtobeanyer · Senior Member

I personally feel that God makes his presence felt in my life on a daily basis, often through nature. Now, for those who are rolling their eyes, I will tell you that 5 years ago I was completely and totally comfortable with the notion that I was an atheist and there was no God or meaning at all to life, and anyone who felt differently was a fool. My experiences in the last year, and really the birth of my children in the last 4 years, has helped me to form a relationship with my HP that wasn't there before. And it feels wonderful.

It's all about recognizing these signs. It doesn't need to mean anything other than God is making you more aware of his presence. It's not going to solve any problems or fix anything. It's just so you know, "I am here". I loved your story and I loved the picture. And Jerry, I loved your story as well!

youfoundme · ~*Service Worker*~

I just read this morning in that book Getting Them Sober, that when the A tries to pull us into the disease with them, we can say "Ok talk to you later" nice and breezy and get off the phone. We have to pretend we are ok without them and when we fake it, we will eventually make it. I love this dove story. How awesome is it that he was there this morning too!

Debilyn · ~*Service Worker*~

lol well if it is I got twenty plus of them! lol and a million other ones, racoons count?

I hope things go well for you. It's so neat to read how you are really searching. You have a strong recovery going!

love,debilyn

hotrod · ~*Service Worker*~

Hi Eleketra

Beautiful Share and picture smile .

I too, once a Non Believer , feel and see my HP in nature and the small signs that I witness each day.

Thanks for the uplifting message

-- Edited by hotrod on Tuesday 26th of July 2011 09:25:52 AM

Jozie · ~*Service Worker*~

((((((((((((Eleketra)))))))))))))

I am a Very Strong Believe in the signs HP brings into my Life just when I Need them Most, and Yes I believe they are signs to help us, guide us, and assure us when we need it... Most here No of my "GrandmaButterfly" and how it has always brought me Hope, & Understanding Just in the moments I Struggle the Most... I know that My HP (Which I Choose to Call God) is with me All the TImes, but sometimes I am so Wrapped up in Tring to survive, that i miss the Little things! and the Signs of the Critters, & Nature around me, has always brought me back to a Place of Peace...

Sorry you have to go thru the struggles of dealing with your A... I know how that feels as well, I am surrounded by them, and I too just gave the stuff up last Oct. not for anyone but ME! I know how I was when I Drank and It took along time to see the People that was Effected by My Drinking... I will send prayers you way that you find the "Peace" this Beautiful Creature is helping you find...

So Glad you Here! Keep Coming Back
Friends in Recovery

Jozie

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