Welcome to my blog! For those of you who don't know, I will be moving to Madagascar in a few weeks and will be working with ADRA. I will be posting more once I get there. Feel free to post comments and share this with anyone you think would be interested.
The title of this blog is two fold. People ask me what my favorite thing in nature is and automatically I say the stars. I first fell in love with the stars while living in Tanzania. While gazing up at them, I feel so small and am reminded how big God is. They humble me. I am also reminded that what looks like small objects are in reality very big and shine so bright in dark places. I am just like that - I am small and don't have much to offer in the big scheme of things, but I hope to shine my light in the worlds dark places and decrease the shadows in my own heart.
The other reason for this title is that I am a people watcher (gazer). I have come across some amazing individuals around the globe and in my opinion the forgotten, ordinary people are the stars of this world. They shine in the dark circumstances of their own lives and ultimately my heart.
A few months ago I was going through a dry spell in life. One beautiful winter night I was walking to meet some friends and accidentally looked up. I paused and marveled at the stars. I said to myself, "I have not looked up in a long time!" It took me a minute to fully digest all the meaning in that statement and its metaphor to my life. No, I hadn't looked up at the stars themselves in a long time. I also hadn't been looking up to God either. In addition, I had been so focused on the world around me and the earth I was treading on, I had forgotten the world out there-- the world that we try to ignore but in reality is more pervasive then the rest. So, as I start this new adventure, I want to look up: gaze at the creation around me in awe, look up to God as the source of my strength, and look up and outside of myself in order to serve the least of this world.
~Kristie
