I believe

I believe in the castle in the air.
I believe in the creation of substance ex-nihilo
Founded on elusive love
Grace takes shape on a cloud foundation
untouched by the underworld
of muck, slime and poison

I act towards
and receive
love unfounded on rational, legal ground
I interpret self and other
In light of a 2000 year old myth of a man
his life and action and blood

I believe in the holy catholic church
The incarnation of God that can be
touched, felt, heard, seen smelled.

I choose to interpret and act towards
phenomena as though it is created
personal: infinite thought finite medium.

I love for faith and hope
Experience lacking
and without vision of that eternal morning
But believing: thought unisolated from action
Believing and acting and thus creating

ex-nihilo: a castle in the clouds
A room within this palace

I choose to wonder and not know
Science now sitting, waiting, watching
I choose to see by dreaming

I believe that there is more than I know
I believe that the shadows we project
of self and take of other
are constructs of potential,
unfinished in their making

I believe in more than g-o-d
: all powerful, all present, all love unchanging
Infinite who sees, who laughs, who listens

I believe in dark nights and tears
and mud and muck and poison.
And the grave before the life everlasting

And if I die before I wake
If in this life I never taste
or see the Lord is Good
If I never hear the final toll
of bells ringing
I pray the Lord my Soul to take:
I act and interpret, I believe
it is real in consequence