Night Has Filled the Sky With Stars
Night comes on, looking about in every direction, lighting her many eyes — the stars. With all that light, she quietly fills the heights and depths of the whole sky.
Do I fear the dark at day's end, or receive it as the stage that lets me see the stars?
📝Reflection
The image of night as 'a being lighting her many eyes' is beautiful. Where the brightness of day has gone, night lights instead the countless lamps we call stars. Here I learn another way of seeing the dark — darkness is not merely the absence of light but the condition that lets us see what daylight hid. Stars appear only when night comes. So too the dark seasons of a life. Things unseen when all was bright come into view only after the dark settles. Rather than laboring to abolish the night, watch what its darkness reveals.
🌱Apply It Today
Before sleep tonight, turn off the light and, in the dark, find one thing to be grateful for that did not surface in daylight.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
