Fixing a Person in the Stars

Mike Mason recounts how his friend Daniel Adair once said:

Whenever I meet someone new, I take that person and fix him or her in my heart. To do this, I literally see that person as a star, and I reach up and set that star in my sky. Where once was a patch of empty dark, there now blazes the living light of a soul I know and love. To set all people above me in this way helps me both to remember and to cherish them.

When I'm lying alone in my bed at…