The dark heavens
To view the stars in all their glory,
abandon the bright city for the dark hills.
Step off the world-worn path
and lie bewildered in the fresh greenery,
your back to the rotating earth.
Don’t waste your vision grouping the stars
into constellations and reciting
their schoolbook, man-given names.
View them freshly as you did
on your first glimpse of their atavistic beauty –
a scattering of pearls against the dark heavens,
an everpresent gift from God to His children,
the very elements and evidence of God’s
brilliance, might, vigilance and mercy.
O child of God, to search for the Light,
blow out your candle.
(photo by Petra Fischer)
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