The Sun, the Stars and the Earth

Recently I had an opportunity to sleep out underneath the stars. The feeling of an amazing expansiveness overtook me, and was there all night. There was an abundance of shooting stars, and the ground was cool and wet underneath me. I felt as thought I could not get up, even if I wanted to. I didn’t want to thankfully, or I may have missed the wonders that unfolded through the night. I was so amazed at how gigantic the sky was. For the first time in a long time, I really felt how large the sky is. The sky may go on forever. There could be anything out there. I felt close to something ancient, like the people that have been looking at them and wondering and dreaming since the beginning of language. I felt the immense ancient secret that is the stars and the sky.

Soon, I feel asleep, which I was not planning on doing. I was kept warm that night by the others that were caught in the love and amazement of stars beauty and the magic that was in the night. What a beautiful night. The sky would wake me up every few hours so I could look and be amazed at how it was completely different than the last time I opened my eyes. Seeing everything move so fast was a beautiful thing that inspired the memory that life is always happening, and in the most usual places are some of the most beautiful secrets. It was an extraordinary experience of something that can been seen as ordinary. It was if the earth was holding me, and the sky was showing me her amazing secrets.

I was woken up when the sun completely announced itself in every possible way, when it came over the hill and hit me in the face with its shining beam. It was if the sun went right to my face and said “HELLO!!” The night was instantly day, the air went from warm to hot, and the world woke up. It was an experience of seeing the sun for the first time. The sun was God, powerful, demanding, giving, and loving. I could feel that all of the stars were still there, behind the bright light of the sun, still holding their knowledge and wonder, patiently waiting for darkness to come. The expansiveness of the night did not disappear, but just changed to the expansiveness of the day.

That morning, under the sun, under the stars, on top of the earth, and surrounded by the two other people that loved the world as I did in that moment, that there was god, support, love everywhere. Everything was completely alive, including me.