Inevitable as dawn

JUNE HENDERSON FRANDSEN

After a wakeful night, I stepped out onto our patio. The sky was still dark, filled with stars. The morning star, hanging low in the east, shone brilliantly. In the perfect stillness, I sat down to clear my thought and to pray.

Christ Jesus found useful lessons in familiar things like the wheat and the tares, the lilies of the field, and the fowls of the air. We too can learn from our surroundings when we observe and listen from the standpoint of spiritual sense.

As I sat there I noticed that one tiny, blinking star seemed to be moving gradually toward a giant saguaro. Soon the little star rested like a bright jewel on the top of the great cactus. The morning star had meanwhile disappeared, hidden by the patio roof. By this time the first daylight was appearing.

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