I love the stars. I grew up in a small village in the country with pitch-black nights and glorious starry skies. I’ve spent many hours gazing at the stars with the naked eye or through a telescope. To the naked eye, stars and planets appear to be mostly a black and white affair. A telescope changes that. Mars’s red color is visible with the naked eye but really comes to life in a telescope. Jupiter can be seen with its beautiful multicolored cloud bands.
But even a powerful telescope can’t show us the immense vibrant beauty of deep-space objects like the Horsehead Nebula or the Cat’s Eye Nebula the way we see them in high-gloss coffee-table books. Why? The answer is simple: exposure. In order to bring out the color in those faint nebulae a camera needs exposure times of many minutes, or even hours.
Do we expose our heart to God many minutes, maybe even hours, every day so that we are able to experience and to drink in the richness of Spirit’s nature? To feel the power of Mind’s intelligence, Love’s tenderness, Soul’s infinite individuality?
