Stars

“Above me lay the day blind stars waiting for their light.” – Wendell Berry

Twinkle twinkle little star is a delightful childhood rhyme. Sun, moon and stars all fascinate me. Once stars were a sailors GPS.

Last night the NBA gave the workers a fierce basketball battle. Two superstars went shot for shot. Cleveland has never won an NBA championship, but the city is hungry for it.

One of the Cleveland players in the post game interview quoted his team leader, Labron James, “Be a star in your role.”

This hit me. If we are a star in our own life role, we experience life’s best. We all have a specific role in life to play.

Once again I borrow a line from Berry’s poem, The Peace of Wild Things, “I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forth ought of grief.”

As the North Star guided sailors the conscious thought of, “Be a star in your life role” guides us to live and love the best game ever. I call it Lifeball.

Today’s Words of Hope resurfaced a song I deeply loved in the late 1960’s. Had to dig deep into the subconscious to remember the words.

He’s Everything to me

‘Til by faith I met Him face to face And I felt the wonder of His grace Then I knew that He was more Than just a God who didn’t care That lived away out there And now He walks beside me day by day Ever watching o’er me lest I stray Helping me to find that narrow way He’s everything to me

In the stars His handiwork I see On the wind He speaks with majesty Tho’ He ruleth over land and sea What is that to me

I will celebrate nativity For it has a place in history Sure He came to set His people free What is that to me