Comments on: Doves

By: jveronicafrench

jveronicafrench — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:56:07 +0000

Tuppence! TUPPENCE a bag! Really, a year later and I can't let it go.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:54:24 +0000

I just came across your blog recently and love it!!!

I like to "lurk" and read blogs (wishing I was as creative! ), but rarely comment. This post brought back some GREAT memories that I had to share about doves!

This might be one of those "you kind-of had to have been there for" stories, but I'll do my best.

My grandma died when I was 13 and my aunt and grandpa insisted on having doves at her gravesite. When we opened up the cage the doves were to be just beautiful as they flew off into the sunset.

However, they dropped like rocks and would not fly away! My mom started to chuckle, which then gave my brothers and me permission to laugh… as well as a few others. My aunt went hysterical! She was so upset and angry that people would laugh! (My brothers and I thought that was even more funny, so we started laughing harder!)

My mom scooped up the doves and decided they were probably too young to fly away. We took them home and decided to "send" them off in our back yard.

That didn't go well either! We laughed so hard!

We later found a poof of white feathers in our backyard…cat? mountain lion? my brother's bbgun? We will never know.

~Tiff

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:16:00 +0000

Doves always remind me of the tv show “Touched by an Angel.” ugghhh like Precious Moments and Cotton Candy. Pardon me, I am about to be sick…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:13:00 +0000

“Feed the birds, tuppins a bag!”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:59:00 +0000

I have also experienced the funeral “doves” in SE Tennessee several times. Rumor has it that at one of the local cemetaries there are hawks that will occasionally chase the doves after they are relesed at a funeral service. It kind of ruins the intended symbolism of the moment.

By: Mariahs Mom

Mariahs Mom — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:53:00 +0000

YES!!! I will be laughing all night. Seriously…we have to meet….you are so funny! Keep posting cause Christians need to laugh more.

Tricia Knapp
Tobyhanna, PA

By: JulieMom

JulieMom — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:05:00 +0000

Oh, and I would totally name my Dove ministry “Far Above Ravens”.

By: p

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:17:00 +0000

I have two things to say:

1. Release the doves when the mime group with their black lights and white gloves are doing "I believe I can fly" (It will be like Church on acid)

2. Feed the birds, toppins a bag! toppins, toppins, toppins a baaaag lalala

ps. Jon, I emailed you for the book back like a month ago and no love, whatsupwiththat?

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:41:00 +0000

You can rent a studio trained eagle from hollywood animals. The best part is that all the birds of prey are trained to “fly outside as well as on stage.” You can get all sorts of birds of prey.

Maybe you should get an eagle and a some evil bird and that lady’s doves, and then the evil bird can go for the doves and the eagle can fly around and defeat it just by being supremely excellent, and then the doves will fly in formation behind the eagle over the pastor’s head. Way cooler than intro bumper videos like they do at my church. People would come back.

By: jamie in rose cottage

jamie in rose cottage — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:57:00 +0000

I do know you can rent doves to release at weddings. Makes for cool pictures, and it’s awesome watch them circle around a time or two to get oriented and then they fly home from whereever they are. (God is cool like that!) But in the midst of the awe and wonder, I’m always expecting one of them to poop on someone’s head.