• "Little One," grandpa began, "stars are very special. They were created to do just one thing and to do it better than anything else. They are in the sky to give us light. But," he continued, "they do more than that. They let us dream of things in the night sky. They allow us to dream happy dreams and most of all they give us direction by always being there when we need them."
• By now I was totally confused and asked him to explain. "Okay he said. Let's talk about the light they provide. Sometime during every month the moon is hardly visible. But the stars, when there are no clouds to block our view, are always there shining brightly just as they have since they were created. The moon reflects the light of the sun but the stars make their own light. They don't depend on the sun's light to shine brightly in the sky like the moon and the other planets do. That's why sailors could always find their way home when they were in the middle of the ocean and didn't have any way to know which way they were sailing. They could always depend on the stars to guide them.
