Starlight

Quiet yourself.

Reach out with your mind’s skillful hand.

Let it go inside of me

and touch

God.

Don’t

be shy, dear.

Every aspect of Light we are meant

to know.

St. John of the Cross

The night sky has been clear for the last several days. As the sun vanishes on the horizon, glorious oranges and pinks give way to the purplish vastness of twilight. And then comes the steady radiance of a planet or two followed by the emergence of star after star.

With the moon being new, the stars are literally the...