Like a dove

Sometimes I wonder if Christianity has shrunken the magnificence of the Holy Spirit’s appearance at Jesus baptism in our neat (but lovely) pictures of doves. I have wondered if the phrase ‘like a dove’ means with the gracefulness and lightness of its movement in flight – rather than the physical form of an actual dove… Luke does say ‘bodily form’, but the event was ASTOUNDING and this picture made me think of these verses…

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