A building, especially a church symbolises for me ' the self '. A ruin represents the self experienced as falling apart, destroyed, without hope. The dove is a symbol of the Holy spirit who brings life.It is a symbol of wisdom and the bringer of hope and new life. The rose represents the heart or the heart chakra, and water voor renewal. The hands are in the receptive position as the soul's receptivity. The sun is present as the eternal presence of God 'in whom we live and move and have our being'.