I believe…

I have made it through some hard times in my life.
I imagine you have too.

Looking back, I can honestly say
That in more than one of those times
I was not sure I would make it.

The presence of a living and conscious love
Got me through.
I can only call it Spirit.
So my faith is not the product of an emotional need
Or an intellectual imagining.

I believe because I know. Because I have been there.
Because of my experience.

I cannot convince others of this truth.
I can only share it and wait to see
The light of memory in their eyes.

Steven Charleston

I believe in the presence of a living and conscious love
because I, too, have been there and experienced it.