I have been going through some spiritual changes. One time recently, as I was staring at the night sky, I asked God, if I was on the right track, to show me a shooting star. I thought this was not too much to ask for in the whole scheme of things.
Do you know what happened? Nothing!
However, while looking around the Big Dipper, I noticed a star with an interesting twinkle. The sky is full of them, but this one seemed different. The longer I stared at it, the more I noticed the shape of a bow in the light coming out. I wondered if this star was older or younger than our Sun. I imagined the hydrogen in it burning so furiously that it caused the effect from this far away. I thought the effect might have been from the atmosphere on Earth, yet none of the other stars were doing this. I stared at it a while longer, imagining all the things I wonder about the universe.
Imagine my feelings when I saw the next morning's Heavenletter, You Are a Star-Echoer.
God didn't show me a shooting star, but He showed me this:
For you are a star-echoer. What else can a star do but shine?
Reflected in My light, it emits My light. How happy a star is!
Consider that each star in the night sky is a flicker of My light radiated through you.
Or consider each star a wand held in My hand to exalt your light.
How reciprocal is light! How non-ending! How circulative!
When the sky is clear I like to look up and gaze at the stars. While staring at the different stars, I try to imagine the vastness of the universe and humble myself by realizing that, according to time and size, I am a tiny and seemingly insignificant part of the whole scheme of things.
Heavenletters would say, "Oh, but you are very important to God!" This I realize because I have also moved to a molecular level in myself. The complexity of subatomic particles is far beyond my comprehension. Imagining how those all fit together to form the biochemical reactions in us that keep us alive is also getting way out there. What is it that differentiates us from non-living things? It's the stuff called Life which we share! What is the byproduct of all these things going on inside us? It is the Light Heaven speaks of!
The reason I feel important is that God has given me a very short time in the middle of all this to make some sort of difference. Pleasing myself is not the big plan but a product of spreading this light God speaks of.