There is a star over you, and over all whom you know.

Christmastide of Joy
by Samuel H. Miller

"The stars are easily forgotten in the cities. Unseen, obliterated by blazing lights and high buildings, they swing their splendored arch silently across the heavens. Yet they belong to the human scene. They lend to it a sense of cosmic perspective. Though we dwell on a tiny earth, we are companions of the stars, caught in the same vast web of creation. This is indeed no picayune destiny, except we make it so.

And now the Christmastide of joy rises to its full, and the story is told again of how the humblest of mortals, the Son of man, was born with a star standing over the manger where he lay. Read the story as you may, make of it what you will, but do not miss the daring implication that the farthest reaches of the universe wait upon the humblest occurrences of this world. There is a star over you, and over all whom you know. There are eternal implications in the scenes of earth; do not miss them -- they are for the guidance of the wise. This life is a web of beauty and strength, holding the stars and little children together in a mighty purpose, larger than our understanding."

from What Child is This: Reading and Prayers for Advent/Christmas by Samuel H. Miller