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[248]. A Message From A Poem – Starlight Is Always There
Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jan 2, 2026 (message contributor)
[248]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – STARLIGHT IS ALWAYS THERE
This is a short poem, one just came straightaway to me. I could expand it more but I decided I will not do that.
Although the poem was written in 2020, the original thought for this came to me one evening when I was walking home. Here is the story –
THE STARS ARE SHINING NOW
You will see below that this that it occurred in 2000. One night I was about to leave a friend’s place to where I had walked, and was going to return home when it began raining. The rain was not too heavy, more of a shower. The comment was made that the sky was dark and black. I waited the 10 minutes or so for the shower to pass then looked at the sky and replied to my friend, “The rain’s gone. Now the stars are shining.”
I thought about this on the way home. Perhaps the inference here was that at one stage the stars were not shining. After all, a few minutes before, I could not see them, not even one. Therefore I could assume because the stars were not visible, they did not shine.
The fact is, however, that the stars were always shining and the reason I might conclude they did not, was because there was darkness and a barrier between me and the stars. When the barrier was lifted, the stars could be seen to be shining in their distinct beauty.
This world is full of people who conclude that God can not be seen and therefore does not exist. The fault does not lie with God but with the barrier between, a barrier of darkness. God has always existed but that barrier must be lifted and only then can we truly understand the light of God’s glorious presence. May we each know what it is to look to God without a barrier between. Ron Ferguson (8/5/2000)
It took 20 years before the thought came to expand on this and write a poem.
There should not be a cloud between God and us, but so often we create that cloud, or we light fires where the smoke obscures our Lord. Those fires are discord and selfishness and other sinful activities.
The Lord’s love is always shining and His mercy and grace is streaming down but our sin causes a barrier that prevents us understanding it all properly.
Face to face without a cloud between – how wonderful that will be when delivered forever from the presence of sin. {{2 John 1:12 “Having many things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you and speak FACE TO FACE, that your joy may be made full.”}}
THIS IS WHAT THE LORD REQUIRES – {{2 Corinthians 3:18 but we all, WITH UNVEILED FACE BEHOLDING AS IN A MIRROR THE GLORY OF THE LORD, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.”}}
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STARLIGHT IS ALWAYS THERE
No cloud between, Lord; no cloud between.
May light shine through, and Your face be seen.
With nothing bleak to obscure our sight
Our gaze rests on Him, Jesus our Light.
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Rain and storms, they can cause us dismay;
Dull the vision, and distort the way.
Looking to Jesus reveals what’s true.
The light of His stars comes streaming through.
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Jesus, for us, You are always there,
Always willing Your great love to share.
May each blackened sky Your presence veil.
May Your goodness to us, never fail.
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Ron Ferguson 8th May 2020 9-9-9-9 AABB
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