The Stars Fell From the Sky

THE STARS FELL FROM THE SKY!

I love my grandchildren more than all the stars in the sky. That's what I tell them, and that's what I mean! That's a lot, a whole bunch! When I say I love them more than all the stars in the sky, I'm not talking about just the number of star although that's an awesome number. I'm also thinking about the brightness of the stars on a very clear, cold night. I'm picturing the beauty of the stars above Table Rock Lake where I was on the top of the world looking down on God's amazing and wonderful creation. I'm remembering the stars near the creek where I grew up and had the blessing of looking at the stars, most of my growing up years, with no artificial lights to dim them.

When I ponder on the beauty of the stars, I am taken back to the time the "stars fell out of the sky."

It was awesome, spectacular, unbelievable, and very frightening. It was November 17, 1966,
when my mom was cooking breakfast prior to daylight. She noticed "sparks" out the window and thought the house might be on fire. Instead, it was soon apparent that stars were zipping by the dozens at a very fast speed and all at once from the sky. Was the world coming to an end? What was this?


My dad insisted that I run to my grandparents' house slightly less than a quarter of a mile "across the creek" and wake them, because whatever this was, they wouldn't ever see it again.


What an absolutely terrifying trip, over the footlog, and across the way. Again, I say, it appeared to me that every star in the sky was falling and at a fast speed. (I'll never see it again). By the time I got Grandpa and Grandma woke up, alas, the show had stopped, and the world was still turning.



We soon found out, via the radio, that this was a magnificent meteor shower. I looked it up on the internet and found that the "November 17, 1966 Leonid Meteor Shower was the largest meteor shower in our lifetime with a reported 150,000 meteors entering our atmosphere every hour, that's over 40 per second."




That was was one of the most memorable moments of my life and I wanted to record it. God is such an awesome God. I'm thankful I'm a child of His, and that when the world ends as scripturally defined, I am ready. I am happy to have seen this spectacular God event, and I am so blessed to love my sons and daughters-in-law and grandchildren more than all the stars in the sky!!!!!