July 12 – “Star gazing”

Last night we engaged in some neighborhood star gazing.  Naw, that doesn’t mean some superstar hero who used to live in the neighborhood came back into town for a visit.  Better than that.  We just joined our neighbors across the street outside.  Well, sort of.  They pretty much stayed on their side of the street and we were on ours.  Social distancing and all. 

So that’s the neighborhood part of the event.  What was the “star gazing”?  Well, it entailed literally gazing up into the heavens.  All we knew was that we were to stare at the Big Dipper.  That was easy enough to find.  But it wasn’t actually stars we were searching for.  Last night was one of those times when a passing comet was actually supposed to be visible. 

Wait.  Can you say that? “actually supposed to”?  Don’t they kind of cancel each other out?  Hmm.  Well, speaking of canceling each other out … something canceled out the star of our show last night.  No comet.  One theory as to its absence purports that the comet is actually an alien surveillance ship, and the driver and the rest of his alien cohorts heard about the Corona Craze on earth and are staying away for the time being.  Yep, staying home watching us on their intergalactic TV’s.  The other theory was that there was too much light on the horizon.  Boring theory.  I’m going with the first …

Psalms 27:4 says, “One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.”

Father, thank you for the beauty in the stars we did see last night.  And thank you for the beauty of friendships that span streets.  Amen.