| 09 December 2009
A calf with a cross-like mark on its head has its owner thinking it may be a message from God.
A holy cow perhaps? Or maybe a divine bovine? A calf born at a dairy farm in Sterling last week has a white marking on its forehead in the approximate shape of a cross. The calf's owner, Brad Davis, told WFSB-TV that he thinks the marking may be a message from above, though he's still trying to figure out what that message might be.
Our search for meaning has taken increasingly surreal turns as people have looked to the sight of toast that resembles our iconographic image of Christ as being a message from God. So enters the calf, having come full-circle, independently an object of worship in some cultures, now appended to the Christian tradition. And just in time for Christmas, which no doubt shall be henceforth now as calfmas.
Can we please hold the divine in higher standing than to imagine that coincidences are the stuff of miracles? The toast is merely singed, it carries no significance. The calf's cross may as easily be a dagger. He may be the God of lesser things, that considers the sparrows and the lilies of the field, and who is mindful of man, but I tend to doubt the appearance of an image that resembles iconography of Christ and not Christ Himself has any spiritual relevance. Ditto for the calf. Folks, sometimes a cow is just a cow. And if it talks to you, run away.
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