THOUGHTS

April 20, 2020

(If 20/20 is good vision, how about looking 4-20/2020?)

I forgot to look up last night to see the meteor shower. 

 It might still be going on the next couple of nights as well,

so I'll try to venture out to see if the sky is falling like many 

are saying running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

If you miss the meteor shower,
move to where you can see fireflies,
almost the same thing only lower.

Here's a repost from April 22, 2013, another meteor shower...

Thoughts for the meteor shower tonight

Have you ever sat around a campfire at night on a mountainside and looked up at the stars?

The thin, pure atmosphere and the absence of artificial lights makes them appear close enough to touch.  Somehow in the pressing glow of earthly endeavors, the heavenly light dims.  Get apart and look up into God's face, close enough to see the twinkle in His eye.  My stars!

"One night when Robert Louis Stevenson was a small boy, his nanny called him to come to bed.  Oblivious to her summons, he was staring at something outside his nursery window.  The nanny walked over, stood at his shoulder, and inquired patiently, 'Robert, what are you looking at?'  The little boy, without taking his eyes away from the window exclaimed in wonder as he pointed to the lamplighter who was lighting the streetlamps, 'Look, Nanny!  That man is putting holes in the darkness!'  You and I may not be able to change the world, but surely each of us can put a hole in the darkness!"  Ruth Graham Lotz

"Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works

 and glorify your Father in heaven." 

Matthew 5:16

"God doesn't need our good works, but our neighbor does."

Spurgeon

"While the stars that ever sprinkle

All the Heavens seem to twinkle

With a crystalline delight."

Edgar Allen Poe

"Where were you...

When the morning stars sang together,

And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 38:4,7

"I am the bright morning star."

Rev. 22:16

My husband was an early riser and part of his devotional routine 

was to go out and find the bright morning star. 

Are not stars places where the veil is torn and eternity is peeking through?

C.J.