----The Lord's Love Reaches To The Heavens ~~
---[Psalm 36:5]

----For decades I've valued the friendship of a poet who lives in the city but writes nostalgically about country living. A few years ago she gave me a three-dimensional eighteen-pointed star that encases a small lightbulb.
Its shiny Mexican tine is punched with myriad decorative holes that leak light. In the daytime, it blends in with my living room. decor. Before going to bed some evenings, I turn off the large lamps and let the starlight speak. settle in quiet down God is faithful. God is here.

I also live in---and love--the city. But sometimes I'm a little homesick. for open spaces, including the nocturnal grandeur I remember from childhood, when my family vacationed at a rural church campground. On clear nights, we kids slept slept on army cots set up on the ballfield. Someone pointed out the North Star, the Dippers , Ursa Major--big bear. In the thousand points of light were we looking for God? For ad vine message? Longfellow called stars "the forget-me-nots of the angels."

Last week I closed up my house, preparing to drive to the country for a few days. I anticipated a nighttime recap, gazing at the heavens. But the skys remained cloudy, and I returned home disappointed, that is until i saw the tin star which I'd forgotten to unplug my friend's gift spoke for the Grand Maker of heaven and Earth. God is faithful. God is here Welcome home! --God is Love. ~

-"God, Creator and sustainer, thank You for signs and symbols that assure me of Your steadfast love. Thank You, Lord that You are always with us, holding our hands. In Christ's name. "


--GuidepostsEB~