Starry Starry Night

The Northern Lights were clearly visible over North Norfolk on Monday night. I should have loved to have gone and seen them, but Bob had a Parish Council meeting and I didn't fancy driving up there by myself. Maybe another time...

But I will go outside to see the Perseids tonight, the meteor shower should be at its peak in the early hours of Saturday morning [says the paper]

When the world seems a dark and dreary place, it restores my soul to go and stand outside on a warm summer night and look up at the stars. 

I think of Isaiah 40;26 which says

“So—who is like me? Who holds a candle to me?” says The Holy. Look at the night skies: Who do you think made all this? Who marches this army of stars out each night, counts them off, calls each by name —so magnificent! so powerful!— and never overlooks a single one?

and I look again at Philippians 2 which speaks of stars too...

Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may be innocent and pure as God's perfect children, who live in a world of corrupt and sinful people. You must shine among them like stars lighting up the sky, as you offer them the message of life.

that's quite a challenge!