“Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.” Micah 7:8b NLT
All I wanted was one. All Famous wanted was to go exploring. It was in the middle of the night and no one else was awake. There was no traffic as we crossed the usually busy road to the park. Famous knew we rarely went out for a walk when we would normally be sound asleep in bed. But it was nice trading the hot afternoon for a warm moonless night. The streetlights guided us along until we entered the park, and then I used a pocket LED light to guide our steps.
He wanted to go all around the path as we usually do, and where he could discover where others dogs had been on the previous day. But I sat down on the bench, an even stranger action, and he was content to stay with me. Just one. They promised hundreds per hour, but I was too lazy to drive out in the country beyond the city lights. Sitting in the darkness, I was happy Famous was with me. I tried to focus on the sky, but I knew if there were any strange movements near us, he would alert me. Almost ready to give up, and then it happened. I caught a brilliant meteor streak through the sky right above us. The streak was not long in length, but it was long in duration, making the scratch on the sky linger for a couple of seconds as if I were seeing a brilliant comet in the sky.
I understand meteor showers, how the optimum time to visualize them is in the early pre-dawn night as the earth’s atmosphere is turning into the path of a comet which visited us thousands of years ago. And I understand in part how we are masters of our own futures, and how we have to make things happen. But I also understand this knowledge and this talent did not come to me out of darkness and chaos and that in my darkness God will light my path.
Gentle Spirit of God, light my way and help me to guard the path You have shown me.
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