How would you like the job of counting the stars?  If you do get that job, I recommend that you work at night!  NASA has a set of suggestions for people who want to count the stars, which they tell you up front is impossible to do!  There are about 10 billion galaxies in the observable universe! 

The number of stars in a galaxy varies, but assuming an average of 100 billion stars per galaxy means that there are about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that's 1 billion trillion) stars in the observable universe!

St. Paul teaches us to not  be “… occupied with earthly things …. Our citizenship is in heaven.”

St. Luke tells us that at Jesus’ Transfiguration Peter, John and James learned was “This is my chosen Son; listen to him.”  That message is (also) meant for us.  Listen to Jesus, follow Jesus & fall in love with Jesus!  Our spiritual growth occurs most often in our daily life, trying to be a good disciple.

The great 20th century French philosopher Jaques Maritain believed that there were only 3 questions that had to be answered:

1.    Who am I?

2.    Where am I?

3.    Where should I be going?

Many times in our spiritual lives we are like 20 year olds planning for retirement, I’ll get to that later.  But Today is what God gave us to grow closer to Him, to know Him more fully, and love Him more deeply than yesterday.

Today is God’s gift to you take some time to grow closer to the Lord.

May God Be Praised!