WHO TURNS OUT THE STARS AT NIGHT? | 2005-01-14
If you are very lucky, you may hear a child ask this question.
It warms your heart. It contains the essence of childhood.
And that question makes all the sense in the world.
To a child.
The child's world is his home. Lights go on because one of those All-Knowing Grown Ups turn them off. Everything is done by us Grown Ups, one of us giants who know everything that is in their tiny world.
So back to the child's question, "Who turns the stars out at night?"
The real answer is that that is not the right question. Can you imagine a bunch of tiny children talking about this question on and on and on? How close would they EVER come to the truth?
I can imagine it. I have read a lot of theology.