"...we are love and love is what we do"

To Be a Star There was thunder and lightning the night I was born and As a child the adults could never understand How I knew what I knew but I had read ahead And reading behind if not all the way through Some posited that I might be possessed instead Meaning by the devil as if everybody knew Since some are always imagining something But simply self-possessed and unimaginary Imaginative certainly a dreamer born to be Existing to imagine what else I might find Transcending as it were by curiosity Being on my own alone with what is and what does And tuning to my inner specificity I began to feel how specific I was I gazed at stars and noticed how some others were Shining around me like stars in the sky Free of credit and of blame of pride and of shame Getting it straight by keeping the point in mind At the point of a point of bright light in the night The point being love above everything That we are love and love is what we do And my mother was one so I became like her Opting to embrace my opportunity Having had done with the imaginary some Aspiring toward a more perfect propinquity Knowing where I came from and remembering my name I decided that to live by love was worth a try And by loving me and everybody I have overcome Knowing who you are is the way to be a star Opening your heart to be the star you are To be here free and clear to see the now is how And to be as we were meant to be is why Just as to be content and continent within your own Specificity albeit paradoxically Is when not to be alone then in December Knowing when young then growing old remembering Who you are remembering that you are a star Knowing now and later in December to remember The star you are the specificity you bring To the universe to never stop discovering And knowing the point and being love above everything Be and do because the thunder and the lightning are for you Fall and rise again and you will learn to fly Up and down and up until you reach the open air To get up there where you belong or else by trying die But everybody dies so keep on trying and get there Remembering that we are love and love is what we do So go on with the show and play your part with all your heart No matter where it leads you even when it seems too far Knowing who you are is the way to be a star +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX