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Whitsun, birds and early summer greenery

Pingstmotiv i ullteknik av Ulla Forsberg/ULLas ULLtavlor -  Rödstjärtar - Svarthättor - Stiliserad duva med eldstungor är symbol för den Helige Andes utgjutande över lärjungarna - Lina Sandells pingstpsalm

Lina's faith in God and her gaze for everything in nature merged in the early summer sweet -- but also  searching -- song "Whit-sun":

Nature celebrates Whit-sun, and beautiful 

the grove stands so fragrant and so green,
and a thousand birds happily sing
in the tree crowns every day and night.

 

But, oh my heart, what are  y o u  doing?
Have you celebrated Whit-sun yet?
Have you received the Spirit, say,
o, are you walking the path of life?

Tr. U.F.
 

Picture:
I brought four of the thousand birds Lina wrote about. There are two red tails and two black caps. The heavily stylized dove with flames is the symbol, which tells of the pouring of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples on the White Sunday.

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