The Sky is Falling

A story emailed by our minister today (from an article she was reading):

The story is told of a night long ago when the stars began to fall from the
sky. The villagers, surprised by the stars streaking across the sky, panicked
and assumed the world was coming to an end. They ran to and fro crying, "The sky
is falling, the sky is falling; the world is ending," until one of them
remembered the wise ones who lived just outside the village. Frantically, they
ran to this older couple in search of an answer. "Look," they shouted, "the
stars are falling into the earth. What will happen to us?" The wise ones, who
had been observing the changing sky for some time, paused a few moments and
asked the villagers to gaze upon the sky one more time. "Look at the sky," they
whispered, "look at the stars that are falling. But, now, pause a moment and
look again, look this time at all the stars that are not falling, but remain
shining in the heavens."