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2001
From the Pastor
THE LITTLE STAR
There once was a very lonely star in the sky. It stood apart from all the other stars and nobody noticed him. He gave a light but it was so dim no one paid him any attention.
There were so many other brighter stars and they shone in galaxies with millions of other stars that were as bright. It was those galaxies astronomers studied and young lovers gazed upon. They were so beautiful they inspired poems and songs.
These stars were use to the adulation. They loved being looked upon and sometimes it puffed them up with such pride they seemed to grow brighter and almost made the night day.
They also loved being useful and helped sailors cross the seas and travelers find their way home.
It was fun being a bright star, but one thing it didn't do was make them sensitive to other stars that shone less brightly and especially those who were off by themselves and not a part of some magnificent galaxy.
So, the lonely star stood by himself. He learned to do things on his own.
During the day when he slept, as you know all stars sleep during the day, he would daydream before falling asleep of being brighter or having another star closer so they could be friends. But, when he would awake at night, which was really his day, because nights are days to stars, no other stars were closer and his light was just as dim as it always was.
One thing being alone and unnoticed did for him, however, was make him more observant than all the other stars. He saw and watched everything. He saw things none of the other stars saw because they were so busy being seen. They never thought to look around because everybody was looking at them and they just figured there was nothing more important to look at than themselves.
But the little star never thought this way. He looked at everything. Every night he scanned the universe, but most of the time he watched the earth. He found it endlessly fascinating; its colors, its landscape, its vegetation, its birds and animals, but most of all its people. He watched the sailors on the sea keeping watch at night and shepherds on the hillside guarding their sheep, travelers around campfires and lights in people's homes.
One night, however, a young couple caught his attention. They were traveling toward Bethlehem. She was seated on a donkey. He watched them all the way to a stable where once inside for a little while they closed the door.
Still he watched and after awhile the man opened the door and the little star high above in the heavens looked inside. What he saw amazed him. Cradled in a manger was a new baby.
The little star glowed. The baby caught all the star's attention. The little star looked and looked and looked all through the night, and the more he looked the brighter the little star's own light became.
Brighter and brighter the little star grew until his light almost filled the sky. All the other stars began to notice and asked themselves who is this star? The moon turned and looked, and on earth three Wiseman noticed.
The little star just kept getting brighter and brighter the more it watched the baby in the manger.
The light of the little star was so bright the Wiseman started to follow it to see if they could see what the little star saw. The brightness of the little star led them to Bethlehem and the stable and inside to the baby who the parents said they had named Jesus and they understood why the star shone so bright.
The Wiseman bowed before the baby, presented him gifts and the little star above continued to shine, the brightest, happiest star in the heavens. He was lonely no longer and he knew it was his light that has pointed the way to the Savior.
So may our light shine this Christmas as we see Jesus.
Dr. David W. Andersen
          
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