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It was " once... stars' million and million in the sky, there were stars of whole the colors: white, lilac, silver, red, blue... one day, they sought you God, all powerful, you God of the universe and they told it:

- Mister God, we would like to live in the earth, among the men..

' It will be done like this ', answered God. ' I will conserve all you very teeny as they are seen, and they can go down to the earth '. it is Counted that, in that night, there was a pretty rain of stars, some were nested in the towers of the churches: another were mixed to the children's toys and the earth was marvelously illuminated.

Even so, passed some time, the stars decided to abandon the men and to return for the sky, leaving the dark and sad earth.

' Why did return? asked God, as they arrived to the sky.

' Mister God, was not we possible to stay in the earth, there a lot of poverty, a lot of misfortune, exists a lot of hunger, a lot of violence, a lot of war, a lot of wickedness and a lot of disease '.

And the Mister told them: ' Clear, your real place is here in the sky, the earth is the place of the transitory, of that that dies and where nothing is perfect, here in the sky it is the place of the perfection, the place where everything is unalterable, where everything is eternal, where nothing perishes '.

After all the stars they arrive and checked its number, God spoke:

' But it is lacking a star. Did get lost in the road? '

An angel that was close spoke:

' Not Mister, a star decided to be among the men; she discovered that its place is exactly where imperfection exists, where there are limits, where the things are not going well '.

' But what star is that? It returned God to ask.

He is the angel he answered:

' For coincidence, Mister, it was the only of that color '.

' And which is that star's color? ' did it insist God.

He is the angel said: ' The star is green, Mister, the green star of the feeling of hope '.

And when they looked at then for the earth, the star no longer it was alone. The earth was again illuminated, because there was a green star in each person's heart, because the only feeling that the man has and God not, is the hope. God already knows the future, and the hope is own of the human nature, own of that that dropped, of that that wanders, of that that is not perfect, of that that doesn't still know as it will be its future.

We will make the green star that we have inside of us to shine more and more and always ".

  Luzia - lneves@sfiec.org.br

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