Sunday, January 6, 2019

Dear God,

A star, a bright, white shining star.  I have always been fascinated by the Star of Bethlehem.  Every Christmas Eve I look for it.  Sometimes it is so radiant that I want to jump in my car and follow it.  At other times the sky is black, clouded over, hiding everything bright.  But I know that I know that I know it is there.

On January 6 I always celebrate Epiphany, this day in the Christian calendar.  I have held beautiful Epiphany parties complete with a three-hour gourmet meal, devotions, story telling, gifts, scripture readings and prayers.  I have also spent the day quiet remembering the star and the wise ones.  But always, always I reflect upon the star and those that followed it.

I always imagined those who journeyed to the stable were simply responding to the light of that star.  Believing that something was sacredly amiss, they sought to seek and find, to discover and kneel down and to come and give gifts in response to the gift of, first, the star and then the savior.  When I contemplate the story I find myself there too looking up at the wondrous glow and down into a simple manger where the real light shone.

Glory to you,
Lord of the Cosmos.
Thank you
for a
simple star,
a  bright light
and an
incredible journey.
Thank you
for all
who seek
to follow
the star.

Love, Andrea