Shooting Stars!
I figure you get very few chances in this life to see something so amazing. So, i was all about goin out to see it. Then, I felt like the LORD was telling me to go see this. No matter what I read or listened to they were talking about it, The Leonid Meteor Shower. It happens every year and is supposed to be spectacular. I had never seen it and really, really wanted to. It was one of those moments; you just know with everything in your being, you are supposed to witness. I go to bed with anxious anticipation of what I will witness later in the evening. I set my alarm and half wake up about 1:15 in the morning. At about 1:25 I hop my entirely too awake for this hour, self out of bed, put on what I think are warm clothes, and my coat. I hop in the car and head …. Well I wasn’t sure where to head. So I drove south toward the beach because that is the darkest place I know. You can see most of the sky from there; I figured I would see something.
I was not prepared for what I did see. After making several stops along the way to see what I could see, I ended up at the beach where I work. I walked on to the board walk and looked up. I saw something streak across the sky. It left a trail I thought like a jet does in the day time but them it was gone. So I’m standing here thinking to my self……very irritated at myself…. you have built this up in your mind so much that you are imagining shooting stars. Then this kinda calm came over me and a prompting to keep looking. So I lay down on the board walk and just watched. I see another one and another just like the first a bright instant of light streaks across the sky and then it is gone leaving a trail which is also gone in an instant. The most comparable thing it can think of is fireworks. They were that bright but just for an instant. It was so fast that I questioned weather it was happening and then it would happen again.
This experience put many thoughts in motion. The first was to remember quotes from the Bible about the stars falling from heaven when HE comes back. Then I remembered in the Narnia stories how the stars fell from the sky at the end of time there. I remember songs and sayings, and was thankful for all the remembrances.
I began to think about how HE communicates with me. So often I treat HIS presence like my first observation of the shooting stars. I find myself asking, “Did that really just happen?” Or saying something like, “HE couldn’t be telling me that or to do that!” More often then not, in my life, His communication is very quiet, very quick and something, that when I really pay attention that is unlike any other communication. I know it’s HIM. Or maybe a better way to say it is my heart knows it’s HIM. It is something I long to hear or see, or experience and it is unmistakable in it’s………..being…..
I AM