Have you ever marveled at the Lord’s presence? Has He ever shown Himself in such a way that you were so smitten with awe that you found yourself overcome with joy? Sometimes the noise of silence confounds my mind's ability to hear Him speak. This morning in the silence instead of hearing Him I saw His hand at work.

When I go to Him in prayer I remove my glasses. If I leave them on I am often distracted and then I lose my focus. This morning though despite laying my glasses aside I was constantly aware of a star in the sky. Putting my glasses on I realized that it was undoubtedly a planet – much brighter than anything else and actually the only star that I could see.

As I continued to lift up my words to the Lord more and more stars appeared. Giving thanks for His presence and acknowledging His promises I ended my time of prayer and looking up I saw an explosion of stars, big and small, bright, twinkling, filling the sky.

Psalm 147:4-5

He counts the number of the stars;

He gives names to all of them.

Great is our Lord and abundant in strength;

His understanding is infinite.