"When behold, the clouds are parted --
Westward, lo, a light gleams far!
Now his heart's true quest has started,
For his eyes have seen the star."
--- Welsh Carol
Aimless. No dreams, no goals. Nothing to look forward to. Bored. Burned-out. Have any of these adjectives ever described you during some period in your life? Man, they have me. And there is nothing that takes the color out of life faster than living purposelessly, nothing greyer or more lukewarm than living without an eye on the future. It will literally wear us out.
In this Welsh carol titled 'Dark the Night', the sage Melchior is imagined pondering, aimless, in his tower. Then, in the west, that star. You know the one. THE star; the one that set him and other sages on their journey to search for a baby King. And the light of that star illuminated not only Melchior's physical path, but his heart's path. He had a quest, a reason, a goal.
Melchior had hope. All because of a star.
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