The Stars

So this last Friday my parents and Lilly and I drove up the mountains and looked at the stars. It was so beautiful. I remember wanting to write about this last night - dunno really why, just that I did. :)

Have you ever noticed that you really can't see the stars in the city? I mean - you can see some of them but compared to when you're in the wilderness it's pathetic the difference between the two. Friday we couldn't even find the big dipper! We had a cluster that looked similar but it was too short :D It puts some perspective on how memorized people of old had the skies, to be able to see without all our junky lights.

It makes me see how amazingly unimportant we are in this grand life . . . but yet then I KNOW with every fiber of my being that we are children of God and . . . we mean ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING to Him. How strange.

How beautiful!

Isn't life just full of . . . everything that makes you want to laugh and cry in simple joy? How can people be so sad when this world all around them screams and shouts of His glory!? I just can't help being so happy with my life. I know there are days (and I especially have those too - I'm NO exception for bad days) but to go through your whole life without the lite and life of Christ lighting your way? How can you not have joy?

I once heard that those who feel the most love and joy are the same people who feel and suffer the most hurt and pain. Even if that's true, which I'm sure in a sense it is, why would that be a reason to stop loving life? It just doesn't make sense. Joy is worth the pain - because our joy will be multiplied tenfold by our faithfulness to the Lord right?

So that's my message of joy I guess. I love life, I hope you take time occasionally to look at the stars and wonder, I hope life brings you more joy than you can hold, and only enough pain to understand what that love and joy means.

I love you!

Kaylla