i do a lot of star gazing.. it's like i can't help it.. if the stars are out, i'm craining my head backward to stair up into the sky... especially lately. i don't know if you've noticed.. but there is something absolutely MAGICAL about the december sky.. you can see every star.. the sky literally shines like diamonds. it's captivating. so captivating, in fact, that on particularly clear nights, my friend becca and i will stay up way too late and drive way out of town just to get away from city lights.. we want to be as close as we can to the sky so we can see all the stars at once.. it's totally worth it.
so i got to thinking about why i love the stars so much.. of course there are the obvious reasons.. for one thing, upon the not-so-rare occasion that i see one shooting itself across the sky.. i get to make a wish.. and i love wishing.. it's just like dreaming, but one step further... always fun:) then there is the undeniable fact that the stars are irrisistably beautiful and fashioned by the One more beautiful than anything we could ever dream up on our own.. the heavens alone are wonderful enough to declare the glory of our God without any of us ever opening our mouths.. but when i stand back and look at the sky.. it is hard to think that anything on our little tiny earth could actually rival the beauty found in th night sky.. that anything could comparitively shout the praises of our creater better than the heavens overhead.. but then i found this verse.. and it's actually pretty cool.. Daniel 12:3 says this:
"'Men and women who have lived wisely and well will shine brilliantly, like the cloudless, star-strewn night skies. And those who put others on the right path to life will glow like stars forever."
did you get that? Godly wisdom makes us as captivating to the eye as cloudless, star-strewn night skies... and living a life that directs others to follow Jesus causes us to glow like stars forever.. wow.. wisdom makes us as bright and breath-taking as the glory of the skies.. and to live a life that points others to the One we follow.. promises us that we will shine like that... FOREVER.. the brilliance won't fade away or wear off... it's eternal.. we can live our lives in such a way.. that people are actually captivated by the simple ins and outs of our day.. the way WE LIVE... declares the glory of our God in the same way that the heavens do... cool right? i want to be like that.
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i want to be like that to. just add it to my enormous list of goals for this year :)
and one of your sentences should read like this:
"on particularly clear nights my friend becca and i will stay up way too late and drive way out of town just to get away from the city lights....and hit enormous raccoons that decimate her car"
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