As the little star looked around at all the bigger stars, his eyes were filled with their brilliance. They were so bright and beautiful that the little star allowed his mind to drift off to the somewhere worlds that would someday admire their beauty.
He personally knew one of the starts that would appear as part of Orion's Belt to the inhabitants of a small planet in the Milky Way Galaxy called Earth, while to the perspective of others on a larger planet in a galaxy far from Earth, he would appear as the tip of the beak on The Great Eagle.
He was proud to be seen with his friend, and especially liked it when his star friends would introduce him to the other big stars as his little buddy who can make rainbows in the daytime.
Of course to Little Star, the fact that he could make rainbows in the daytime was no big deal. "After all," he would tell the others, "that's not really what stars are for," as he held back the little sparkles approaching his eyes in the form of tears.
You see, what Little Star wanted more than anything in the whole universe was to be a big and beautiful star like the others. Although Little Star was small in stature, he made up for it with an abundance of pride, so he was always able to chose back the sparkles before any of the other stars could see his sadness. He had no way of knowing at that time how much the other stars liked him, or that they already knew his was a very special purpose.
As the bid day approached when all the stars in the Omniverse had their position assignments and were getting last minute instructions about their gravitational effect in the universe that was about to be formed, something happened that Little Star would remember forever. He me The Great North Star.
He'd never seen The Great North Star up close before, and was somewhat surprised that in the presence of his magnificent brilliance he felt a comforting warmth that enveloped him with love. The Great North Star broke what seemed an eternity of silence. "Are you ready for your journey?"
"Huh! Who me?" conveyed Little Star's confusion. "Why of course you", replied The Great North Star. "But why me?," asked Little Star, "surely I don't have a place in the universe, why, I don't even give off light." "And besides, if I did, I'm so small nobody could see me anyway."
The Great North Star laughed, and knelt down beside Little Star. "Of course you have a place in the universe," he said, "in fact, yours is a very special place, one that is the envy of all the big stars". "But I don't understand," said Little Star.
The Great North Star continued, "You see, all the big stars give energy and meaning to the universe in their way, and you in your way." Still confused, Little Star asked for more. "While the big stars offer beauty and direction in the nighttime sky, you will bring a connection of oneness to a special spirit many years in the future, and unlike the big stars, yours will be a daytime gift when all the big stars, other than the sun, will be asleep."
"From your gift, and the gift of the sun, people will be able to see the colors of the rainbow on a storm less day." "Do you mean", asked Little Star, "that I will be a special star for just one special person?" "That's right," said The Great North Star.
Little Star was so excited that he could hardly wait to meet his special person. "Patience," chuckled The Great North Star, "it will still be a long time before you meet your destiny. Only when the time is just right will your individual beauty be appreciated, and many things need to happen first."
"In the meantime, your job is to gather energy from all the love and honesty in the rest of the universe, and when your time comes you will be a gift to the person who can appreciate all that you bring to their world." Little Star thanked The Great North Star and began his journey toward his destiny.
With this gift, Little Star at long last meets his destiny.
"What is your destiny?"
--Al Sargent
