Dan left the following comment on my blog post Receiving White Feathers From The Dead. It's not strictly about white feathers - though it is in a way, but the feathers are still attached to a white dove.
Mike,
I have a story about a white dove if doves mean anything.
One day I came home from work and a white dove was perched on the steps that lead up to the front door of my house. No doves or birds of any kind were ever previously on my steps.
This white dove would not move to let me by. I made noises, waved my hand, stared at the dove ... nothing happened.
Finally I went in the back door of my house. I looked out the window and this one lone white dove was still on the front steps at 4pm and 5pm and 6pm.
At 7pm that night I received an urgent phone call saying my aunt had suddenly passed away that afternoon. I looked out the window one last time and the dove flew away never to come back at all on any day.
I dont know for sure if that means anything but I think it does.
Thanks,
Dan
I have a story about a white dove if doves mean anything.
One day I came home from work and a white dove was perched on the steps that lead up to the front door of my house. No doves or birds of any kind were ever previously on my steps.
This white dove would not move to let me by. I made noises, waved my hand, stared at the dove ... nothing happened.
Finally I went in the back door of my house. I looked out the window and this one lone white dove was still on the front steps at 4pm and 5pm and 6pm.
At 7pm that night I received an urgent phone call saying my aunt had suddenly passed away that afternoon. I looked out the window one last time and the dove flew away never to come back at all on any day.
I dont know for sure if that means anything but I think it does.
Thanks,
Dan
I think that Dan's comment speaks for itself so I'll simply add three references to white doves.
~ 1 ~ According to Symbolic and Mythological Animals
by J. C. Cooper, "The white dove is one of the most venerated creatures, symbolizing the spirit, the soul, bringing the spirit down to the earth and the transit between one state and another."~ 2 ~ During the canonization ceremony of Christian Saints, white doves are released to represent the soul rising to heaven.
~ 3 ~ In Christian Iconography, a white dove symbolizes the Holy Spirit.
White doves or owls, it seems that birds are often messengers about a loved one passing on. I'm glad Dan sensed it and wrote you.
ReplyDeleteThanks Trish - owls as well, forgot that.
ReplyDeleteMike,
ReplyDeleteHere's a story for you;
"Man's face seen in clouds before death"
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8416047/mans-face-seen-in-clouds-before-death
Cheers.
I went today and placed a memorial garden stake on my best friends grave who died two months ago today (I just now realized that the date was significant). While I was there I prayed and asked to feel her presence. I wanted assurance that she was in heaven and happy now. When I left, I did not feel any particular assurance, other than having a good feeling from visiting her burial site and placing a memorial with her photo there so people can remember her beautiful smile. When I returned home, there was a white bird sitting near my driveway between her old house (we used to be neighbors) and mine. When I got out of my car to investigate (I was afraid it was someones pet bird) I discovered it was a white dove. I immediately felt assurance that my friend was in heaven and she had sent this white dove as a message to let me know that she was in heaven and all is well.
ReplyDeleteSo, My husband and I where on the way to see my mother and saw three doves flying in formation. Does anyone know what that means? The three doves where flying so close to my car almost had to pull over. I was so afraid they where going to hit my car but they stayed right on the side of it.
ReplyDeleteWhite doves are gods messengers & symbols of the holy spirit, they represent all the beauty of the world (Los Angeles)
ReplyDeleteI was supposed to be killed today. There is no way I should be alive right now but a white dove guarded my house. SEE VIDEOS BELOW!
ReplyDeleteThis video is of the guy sent to kill me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDyn1f92Gy8&feature=g-upl
This video is of the white dove caught on camera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia9LbUUvTW0&feature=g-upl
Hi Mike Perry. It was the HOLY SPIRIT. The HOLY SPIRIT coming as a DOVE is not a Roman Catholic symbol, its a Biblical Christian symbol. Read John's Gospel Chapter 1. Hope to hear from you soon. GOD BLESS, David.
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ReplyDeleteI had a dream last night that the world ended. Ok so my dream played out like this I was at home and all of a sudden I heard one of the loudest noise so I went out to see what was going on coming to find out the world was ending so I started pray for forgiveness then all these doves started to fly over me, then a light started to shine down so when I looked up to see where/what it was god was up by the clouds mind you that he was just floating he then started to lift a couple of ppl up towards the sky then came as close to my face then ask me 2 questions I dnt remeber what he ask/said but I remember saying yes then the 2nd question I just could not understand because I remember sayin what but he never reply he just dissapared and left me was so scary because I just dnt kn what that could mean plus the way he appeard in my dream he didnt look human like, more like he was made out of cement ...
This past saturday 1/19/2013 my mother past away. Yesterday My dad and I went to the front yard of there house to walk her dog and reminiscing the memories of my mom. All of a sudden out of know where a white dove comes towards us and flaps its wings in a still motion. My dad and I then look at one another and said wow where did the white dove come from ( we live in Las Vegas so you dont see doves like that) as we looked back the dove vanished. I told my sisters of the dove and one of my sisters say the dove the day before. I believe this was a sign from or for my mom letting us know she is ok and she is at peace and in heaven. It was just truely remarkable.
ReplyDeleteJuly 2008 My step father died of a very aggressive cancer, melanoma. A few hours before his death, I looked out his window at the hospice center he was at. I noticed a few white doves near a base of a small tree. After I left, a few hours later I got a call from my mom that he had passed. Latter that evening I went for a walk with my family down the street, looked up and noticed a few white doves flying above me. To the day, I do not recall seeing white doves flying around. I always wondered about this dove sighting experience. Just thought I would share.
ReplyDeleteI see white doves almost on a daily and white owls when I'm out at night, generally I run into ALOT of white animals. What does it mean???
ReplyDeleteMike my friend told me how her auntie and uncle were being harassed by a young rowdy anti-social drug dealing family and their customers living across the road so I visualised the auntie's place guarded by two huge angels at the front door and two at the back gate but placed an identical angelic quartet guarding the other hostile household on the principle those who menace others often do so out of a deepseated fear of their own vulnerability. Anyway by a curious coincidence white feathers started getting found round the house and things calmed down.
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting Alan, hadn't heard of something like that previously - thanks.
Deletei think i was saved by an angel yesterday. i was riding bikes with a friend along the l.a river on a bike path and we stopped under a bridge and i seen a white dove fly and sit on a ledge under the bridge and was staring at me the whole time....later that night i was getting a ride home and was in the front passenger seat and a car came flying out of an ally and i seen it happen in slow motion as the car almost hit the side i was on...at the last moment we swerved out of the way just before the car hit us....i dont know if the white dove ment something but i feel it was a guardian angle
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