Look at the Stars!

"Look at the stars!

look, look up at the skies!

O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!" (G M Hopkins)

Slowly the hazy blue of day

became the smokey gray of early evening

and then the settling sun

pulled the world into darkness

Alone on a back road

no city glow to 

ease the starkness of the night

I gazed into the gathering black

into the unrelenting gloom

then like a firefly

there then gone

just an insignificant speck of light

glinting in the shadowy skies

then another

and soon the sky was filled with

particles of light

gleaming

sparkling

shining

transforming the sky

and giving it life.

sometimes it is the little things

just the little things

that give us life

A baby deer asleep in my flowerbed

A text from my best friend

The smell of overheated pines

A picture of my granddaughter

A grin from my friend Scott, smiling in the midst of pain

The sound of laughter
Just the beauty of a walk in the dark

Thank you Lord for the small gifts

which are there If I stop

and take the time

to look up