"Purpose in the pattern meaning in the measure / And light in the darkness where pain gives birth to pleasure"

The River of Stars for Lucy in the sky 1 In the middle of the darkness of the midnight sky Written in the riddle of the sparks of night Where they fly upward there as I seem born to trouble here As if to ask why not in answer to my question why 2 When the only thing preventing me from anything is fear I wait then for the spine of the sky to appear When though silence is unbroken love is spoken in The backbone of the black and of the velvet blue On either side of glory as it spirals through 3 The river of stars the superhighway of light Like heavy traffic late on the celestial interstate With every light a blazing sun surrounded by the worlds of Other worlds but worlds the same made one in light by love 4 And love is the giver the sea to which the river flows Origin as destiny what comes returning where it goes The promise unspoken of love never broken in The course of the source of the universe surging In the river of stars for now and forever 5 From me and to me around me and through me The river of stars is my visible hope of Now here before me around and behind Exchanging the unchanging with me changing my mind 6 Channeling me to the challenge of love Through the rocks and the rapids and over the falls Alone with my feelings together with love Knowing no ceilings no floors and no walls From me and to me around me and through me 7 Around and below as around and above The spine of the sky comes unaffected by our urging Doing what it does because of and for love of love And if the clouds within and without allow we see it now 8 This is the now as well as the never We never imagined would ever be like this In the river of stars when the sky becomes a kiss To free our being to become whenever we see The only thing preventing us from anything is fear 9 Along the spine of the sky every being is free To wait then for the river of stars to appear The backbone of the black and of the velvet blue On either side of glory as it spirals through 10 Overarching undergirding compassing who are Rotating revolving notating and evolving Each to the specificity of every separate star Harmonized within the music of the spheres Synchronized within the synchronicity 11 So all our times are nows and all our places heres Purpose in the pattern meaning in the measure And light in the darkness where pain gives birth to pleasure When we see each other signaling as we are sailing by 12 We never thought what could be would but see now it is this In the middle of the riddle of the spine of the sky Unbroken love in silence spoken by the sparks of night In the river of stars when the sky becomes a kiss As if to ask why not in answer to our question why +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX