It seems that some of the most memorable insights God shares with me are the result of my daughter asking a simple question.  Earlier this month we were looking up at the moon and talking about the why the full moon SHINES in the night sky.  My answer was something routine about the stars being made of gas and the moon reflects that light but does not make its own and so on.  How the moon, when it is in line with the sun reflects the sun’s light but that the moon is made of dirt-- just like (insert God smiling) us.  Wow! 

God makes the dust of the moon to SHINE so brightly it not only lights up the night sky for all the creatures of the earth, but so much so that the dust seems to be glowing.  Dust.  I don’t know what kind of dirt you have, but shining and radiant would be the last words I would use to describe the dust at my house. In fact, I have many visible reminders that dust actually prohibits things from being as shiny as they were created to be.

God wants to transform our life that we, mere dust into which he has contained the breath of life, SHINE.  Next time you scuff your feet in the dirt, sweep, dust, or look at the moon, I hope you will be encouraged to draw close to God and let him make your dust SHINE “like lights in the universe holding on to the word of life.”