Starry eyed

I stood in my backyard tonight and looked up into the clear night sky. The crescent moon was shining brilliantly - illuminating what little snow remains. The stars seemed motionless, forever in the same sky I had watched in my childhood. Constellations I have long since forgotten the names of - learned at a much younger age. As a child, I wondered how gravity could hold us all together without falling off the surface of the earth....and why the stars wouldn't just randomly float anywhere instead of in predictable constellations that we could search and find the same pictures over ions of time.

As a lover looks with fondness into the eyes of the one they love, so when I gaze at stars I see the One whom I love more with each passing day.

There are times in our lives when we are faced head on with the reality of our own mortality. Our time here is brief. But far more real to me is that the One who holds the stars in place..... holds me. That's far more amazing than gravity.