Weeping Starlight (Have Hope and Get to Work!)

Some of you may have already read this poem in my notes posted on Facebook. It's one of my older ones, but definitely a fave. (Which is funny considering how much I like to make wishes on stars, dandelions, wishing rocks, pennies, etc.) Anyways, I was just reminded of it as I was reading a talk from General Conference yesterday. In Elder Steven E. Snow's talk on Hope he said, "Hope is an emotion which brings richness to our everyday lives... hope brings a certain calming influence... our hopes can lead to dreams which can inspire us to action... Hope can inspire dreams and spur us to realize those dreams. Hope alone, however, does not cause us to succeed. Many honorable hopes have gone unfulfilled, shipwrecked on the reefs of good intentions and laziness." (This also goes back to a post I wrote on how you should really figure out what you want and go after it.)

Sometimes it may be hard to have hope, really hard even, but we shouldn't give in to our doubts. There is no power there, or at least no power in OUR hands. We should choose faith and choose to recognize our potential. We may feel powerless, and this may lead to placing the responsibility of our wish fulfillment on undeserving objects. INSTEAD we should enjoy the playfulness of hoping and wishing on these things while recognizing that the ultimate power is within. And with God. We have the choice, the power, the potential, and the responsibility to ourselves to discover what it is we desire out of life and then...have hope and get to work!

weeping starlight
from a shooting star
drips down, trickles down
glitters and sparkles
cleanses
travels through night
leaves only night
passes through and fades
till the nearest star returns
bright beyond all else
warming and illuminating
a different kind of shooting star
circling and returning
raining down its glory
reigning over the life it gives
a light and life we take for granted
because despite its constant presence
it becomes regular and trite
while shooting stars in passing
surprise us
with their special and transient light
the sun with its ever present glow
should be the focus of our wishes
for with the work of day
we are what make them come to pass.