Reach for the Stars?

In the past week many young people graduated high school or college.  I personally had a son who graduated from Kindergarten.  Very exciting!  However, the high school graduation ceremony I attended got me thinking as I flipped through the program and saw their theme, "Reaching for the Stars".  As I listened to the Salutatorian and Valedictorian give their speeches encouraging the graduates to reach for the stars....it left me feeling empty.
What if you reach and reach and reach and still can't get there?  What if you reach and get your star and it ended up being not what exactly what you expected or wanted when you got it?  What if the sky all the sudden became black and you couldn't even see the stars?What if instead of reaching for the stars, we reached for the Star Maker?  The One who knows the entire universe inside and out and yet can still keep count of the numbers of hairs on my head.  The One who formed us in our mother's womb and sees our every hope, dream, struggle, failure, and loves us through them and in spite of them.  The One who gave everything for the ability to have a relationship with us.  Yes, I believe if we reach for the Star Maker instead of the stars then He can give us the stars and so much more