Learning Atonement Anew...
AT ONE MENT Just after breakfast a Mourning Dove perched on my window ledge three stories above her earthly comfort zone. Upon seeing her there almost instantly ‘atonement’ came to mind. Not the bloody kind theologians and scholars have steadily tried to convince us of over the centuries… Instead, the at-one-ment of sensing her not afraid of me, now only a foot away with a camera in hand that whirrs and buzzes. Nor me afraid of her, flapping and fluttering on my ten-inch wide window ledge calling to her children or her mate in the familiar “hoo – hoo - hoo.” Rather, we’re here together face to face without fear. She and I are one it seems; her purpose and mine the same. Both of us learning to be and to become who God made