"Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night, too serene for the companionship of fear. We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us: and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.... Sure was I of His efficency to save what He had made: convinced I grew that neither earth should perish, nor one of the souls it treasured." Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte- Chapter 28.
My boyfriend and I stood out among the stars one night. It was nice, to be so alone with him. At my house, there aren't any artificial lights for miles and miles around; you can see the stars go on to infinity. All is peace; all is well. At that point, on that night, I felt very similar to how Jane felt in this passage; although there will always be hard times, and things that make us feel that we are insignificant, even the tiniest bug on the tiniest meteor in the farthest reaches of space are important to God-- he loves us all. I felt that, even though my boyfriend and I are almost always apart, we are very close together in the grand scheme of things. Whenever I read that passage, I think of my loved ones who are far away, and think about how close, in relation to the nearest star, that person or those persons really are. It makes me feel nice to know that they aren't really all that far from me, and that all of the stars to us are the same stars, the moon the same moon, and our God the same God (even if not everyone I love believes that). God will never forsake us, just as he will never forsake that tiny bug on the tiny asteroid in the farthest reaches of space. He won't let that bug perish, but instead have eternal refills on his drinks at Millways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
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