In June of 2021 Bayleigh had a dream. She woke up and told her dad, “Daddy, the moon is singing a lullaby to the stars.” Asking her to tell him more, Jeffrey invited Bayleigh to draw a picture of what she saw in her dream. Her imagination was sketched beautifully on a piece of clean white paper. Bayleigh became the illustrator of this book and her moon was the main character. Over the next two months, Bayleigh’s dad waited and a poem came to him. The poetic lullaby became the story of the moon who wanted to be a star but couldn’t. The moon realized that she was stuck and that her light would never be bright like a star. This story is important because it addresses the deep longing that many people feel, especially our children who want to be something which they might not be. To be ourselves is the challenge! We need to evaluate why we teach our children to need lots of money, thousands of followers and subscribers. We are teaching them that they can never be enough. 

What Bayleigh’s dream and this book show and teach us is that though we feel like we are not enough, the reality is that we are enough. The moment we stop trying to be something we are not is when we truly shine.