Once there was a baby born, In sleepy little town The One who made the universe Did so by laying Himself down And there above in Heaven’s skies A holy parallel, A new-created Universe The brightest star did tell And star in sky was in manger, too The universe in infant Heart His Love was the Light that caused star to shine And thus the new world has been wrought And oh can you see in dirt of stable’s grime The purity of Heaven’s star For you will see in one way if in other ways not, For all declare glory to God Glory to Yahweh in every way I will see You where You are By this the universes will ever be made From the Unity of Our One Heart And beautiful star shining up in the sky No greater or less than the babe Who lays in the manger on this Holy Night, The pure and full Love of Yahweh. *** Merry Christmas 2017 <3 Cassondra 

Once again I’m asked to let go of everything, Like Job writhing in his ashes, I am surrounded with the loss and the suffering As all that I thought I knew slips away from my fingertips, Slowly bleeding into a vapor, a mist, A shadow of nothingness, And formlessness and void I tremble, I weep, I wonder, How many times will You ask me to give it all? How many worlds will be destroyed by the continual movement of Our dancing? How many times will We be made new? And why is this the pattern We have chosen? Why must one world seem to end for another to begin? And what can I learn from this time of darkness and suffering and loss? And I let it go and give it all… And there when nothing is around me, I find there’s only You in the ashes of the worlds, In the center of it all, Our United Heartbeat, And I realize that’s all I ever needed, For worlds are only for a time, But Love always remains And somehow eternity does not mean that all th...