I am curious to know about the profile

My avatar came about through a series of changes that were comical in nature with other forum members. In other words, there is no more significance then a good laugh in the past.

Tes said:

lease tell me, what this mean instead of having one's own picture?

My story is not much different than others - I wanted something I enjoyed, that said something about my attitude toward life.  Somehow, Snoopy (of Peanuts fame) said exactly that - or so I hope.

Have fun in choosing your avatar.

William Bingham said:

My avatar sort of symbolizes who I am or more directly what I love.

I understand, I used to feel the same way.  I will pray for you. [:)]

                                                                                         - I really will, though not because of your avatar.

Floyd Johnson said:

I understand, I used to feel the same way.  I will pray for you.

                                                                                         - I really will, though not because of your avatar.

Floyd.....I do not understand.  Would you tell me what you mean?

My avatar is a picture of me and my son.  I use it because I love his smile in this picture.

In mine, you have to have a magnifying glass, but it's the Chapel of the Holy Cross at base of Twin Buttes in Sedona Arizona. Almost as many people visit the Chapel (Catholic) as the Grand Canyon. Our home is on the other side.

MJ. Smith said:

If my avatar was larger you could see that she also gave me her Finnish eyes.

Your grandmother had beautiful Finnish eyes.

My current avatar is the fireworks of the Tanabata festival in Sendai, Japan. It is a folk festival celebrating a tale of star-crossed lovers of different ranks. They were forbidden to marry so they became stars in the night sky and their paths cross at Tanabata time (around July 7th.)

I usually sport a samurai of some sort like Date Masamune. On occasion I might post one of my babies. My rationale is just about anything is a better looking avatar than my mugshot.  When my beard reaches my knees, I might post a pic. No promises.

Tes said:

 

First I would like to ask you humbly to forgive me. Coming from the horn of Africa, I always wonder when I see deferent things like animals and other things in the profile, would you please tell me, what this mean instead of having one's own picture? I am curious to know about it. I would like it if I could hear from every one, but I think this may be waste of time and not important.

Blessings in Christ

 

I suspect some of the avatars are like mine -- people or things which are meaningful to the one posting it. Mine is of my mischievous but sweet granddaughter and was taken just a few months ago.  Ain't she sweet?  (You'd better not say "No" or I'll reach out through the internet and punch you).  [:D]  [;)]

I like to use the Coptic icon of Christ and Abbot Mena (which is the oldest known Coptic icon, by the way) since I very much identify with it - not that I'm a martyr, obviously, but it shows this kind of intimacy and friendship between Christ and Mena that I like to think of as a spiritual paradigm and guide for my own relationship with Christ.

Mine has me holding my most recent grandchild - the 7th in the last 7 years.  The reason is obvious.

I am the one in the orange shirt.  We do look very much alike.

<---- Just a kid stuffing his face at a pic-nic. Or was that a clam-back. No I think it was after the wild ‘shrooms were done being washed----oh I don’t remember….

Sorry to glom on to an old thread, but I don't have my photo as my avatar because I'm as ugly as a mud fence and reluctant to frighten children and impressionable adults.

Besides, I like to remind others that, for certain, unless one is born again, one will not be able to see the kingdom of God.

(I used to have Bear Bryant as my avatar, but that would have little meaning outside the Southeast US.)