The star invites us to set out on a journey,

and wants to free us from the chains that bind

us down to our own selves, or to a pure and simple system.

It spurs us on, to undertake a journey to a place

we have never been to before.

This is what the star wants.

and the nature of this star is that it goes beyond, but also stops.

It crosses the desert and moves further, up to the most

remote places, but then it stops above a house.

And which house is it?

Could it be my school, for example, or my office,

or however, there where I usually work.

The star has stopped there and says,“This is the place: right here!”

And then, as I return home,

it stops above my home, my little world: that is where

the star has stopped.

In this place where I am right now

I have to find the precious things, the things that matter.

But I will find these precious things, the things that count,

only when I discover that the star has stopped also above my neighbour’s house.

That is where I will find Jesus.

(K. Hemmerle, The Light within things. Daily meditations. New City, Rome 1998).