They look like Pigeons to me, but I am not exactly sure what they are. But I am sure that they are close to one another and that is the important thing to notice. I picked this picture today because it reminded me of an good sermon I heard in church today from the following passage...
World English Bible: I Corinthians Chapter 13
[1] If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. [2] If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. [3] If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
[4] Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, [5] doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; [6] doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; [7] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. [8] Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. [9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; [10] but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. [11] When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. [12] For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. [13] But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
For many of us this is a familiar chapter of the New Testament; but what I found interesting was that at the end of the lesson, the preacher asked us to insert "I" where the characteristics of love are listed in the emboldened verses above. I included the entire chapter for context sake and to clarify those bold verses. Love extends from love of self to friends, family and the body of Christ and its very good to ask yourself: do I really love the way I should be loving? If you aren't, change; if you are, try to love more. Like the birds in the picture, you will grow closer with others and to God as well. Something to think about on a cold rainy Sunday...