Friends…the stars in my life

Stars in my sky… that’s what I told someone yesterday. I love a dark night… I love to sit on the dark dock up north and watch the stars. Sometimes there is a falling star, sometimes a million and sometimes just the constellations and me frantically trying to remember what I learned in grade school. The stars in my sky…. are the friends who have walked through life with me. Some of them are in groups similar to the constellations. They appear for a certain time, for such a time as this from Esther, others are the falling stars that are here for a fleeting moment but all make my night worth looking up in the sky. They bring comfort, thrill my heart and I can’t count them there are so many. It reminds me of the promise made to Abraham in Genesis 24. I could reword that to be ,”I will make your friends as numerous as the stars in the sky.” And again in 1 Corinthians 15:41 reminds me , the sun has one kind of beauty, the moon another. The stars yet another; indeed each star has its own individual beauty.” I am so thankful for the stars in my life. Each of them individual and each of them special regardless of the time they have shown in my heart. I did open a gift early: the kids worked together to contact 60 friends and have them write something and make a book of it, I know some more will come in, but it amazed me at what the stars in my life said from their heart. A cool birthday gift by even a more awesome gift to know that even in my darkest night there are stars shining in my corner… I just need to go look in my sky….