Something about the Stars

Go look at the stars.  I dare you.  Find a place where you can see them.  Living near a big city that task was hard to accomplish but somehow I found a spot.  Its at the Race Track.  If you've never noticed there isn't any light in the middle of the giant parking lot/ fields.  You can go there, look up and see the stars and the moon.  I love it.  For me looking at the stars is a way of going home. I forget where I am, the issues in my life, and problems I am facing.  When I look up I think about home, I think about Costa Rica, I think about night sledding, I think about the last evening with a friend, I reflect on life, I get lost into a wave of memories.  It doesn't matter where I am at the moment I gaze into the night sky, I am overwhelmed by the calming consistency of the way it looks.  The familiarity of it looking the same is comforting.  SO tonight is special.  Tonight the moon is to appear larger than it has all year long.  It's not that the moon has increased in size, its the fact the earth is closer to the moon.  So the moon is going to shine a little more light on the earth.  I got to thinking.  When we are resting in God and abiding in him He seems bigger.  He seems to be shining more light on issues in our life.  He seems to reveal himself more to us than before.  God hasn't gotten larger, we have just gotten closer.  You'll be surprised where you are taken when you stop and look at something as simple as the stars.