Stella

One evening, many years ago, I was sitting on the bench in the garden looking up at the night sky at the end of May. There were so many stars twinkling in that dark bue sky. A little serven-year old boy was sitting next to me and looking up at that sky too.  He knew that I was sad, thinking of a recently departed loved one ... and he said that people who died went up into the sky to become a twinkling star so that they could always look down on us and be with us, just in a different way.

I told the little boy that he would have been called 'Stella' if he had been a girl. Stella means star and his due date was December 23rd, but he came two weeks' earlier. That little boy sitting on the bench next to me is my son who is now a grown man.

We should aways listen to little children when they tell us important things.