Orion Meteor Shower 2025 – Did we miss it?

At 1:30 A.M., the house is dark. The last question I asked him last night was about the expected meteor shower associated with the constellation Orion in the night sky. He is softly snoring and doesn’t move when I rise to look through the three living room windows covered by shades. I open the shade least visible to the sleeping husband. Orion is just above the tree line, the Pleiades is higher in the sky, and planet Jupiter peeks through the trees below. The sky is pristinely clear. I forget about a meteor and gaze intently at the sky—all of it that’s visible through that one window. I lean against the wall and let my eyes feast on the night sky—15 minutes of gazing and not a single meteor. The clouds slowly touch each other, blocking the visibility of each star. I quietly close the shade and return to the warm bed and the man who, even in his sleep, slips his arm around me to draw me close. This man I love was the first to point out and identify the constellations, planets, and objects through the binoculars, let me watch him sketch as he observed through the telescope, and infected me with his passionate fascination with the Creator of it all. I had never noticed. I had never seen. I had never truly looked up.

Few people know that he has a downloadable course on our ministry website, cwm4him.org,  that introduces people to the heavens from a biblical perspective. It’s free. As a retired government technical writer, he systematically introduces the necessary skills that inquisitive children and parents need to fully enjoy the night sky in all seasons. Currently, he is editing the course to make it more concise and understandable, and to include more sketches. We will publish the paperback copy in 2026. If you want to purchase this revised version, go to RJ Beard Publishing and sign up to receive notification of the publishing date. It will still be available free as a PDF download from the Christworks site: cwm4him.org. First or second edition – it’s worth reading as you gaze at the created sky.