¡HAPPY EARTH~DAY NOEL!

I am there

You cannot see me, yet I am the light you see by.

You cannot here me, yet I speak through your voice.

You cannot feel me, yet I am the power at work in your hands...

I am at work, though you do not understand my ways.

...I am at work, though you do not recognise my works.

I am not strange visions. I am not mysteries.

Only in absolute stillness, beyond self, can you know me

as I am, and then but as a feeling and a faith.

Yes I am there. Yet I hear. Yet I answer.

When you need me, I am there.

Even if you deny me, I am there.

Even when you feel most alone, I am there.

Even in your fears, I am there.

Even in your pain, I am there.

I am there when you pray and when you do not pray.

I am in you and you are in me.

Only in your mind can you feel separate from me, for

only in your mind are the mists of "yours" and "mine".

Yet only in your mind can you know me and experience me.

Empty your heart of empty fears.

When you get yourself out of the way, I am there.

You can of yourself do nothing but I can do all.

And I am all.

Though you may not see good, good is there, for I am there.

I am there because I have to be, because I am.

Only in me does the world have meaning; only out of me does

the world take form; only because of me does the world go forward.

I am the law on which the movement of the stars and the growth of

living cells are founded.

I am the love that is the law's fulfilling.

I am assurance.

I am peace.

I am oneness.

I am the law that you can live by.

I am the love that you can cling to.

I am your assurance.

I am your peace.

I am one with you.

I am.

Though you fail to find me, I do not fail you.

Though your faith in me is unsure, my faith in you never wavers,

because I know you, because I love you.

Beloved, I am there.

~James Dillet Freeman

Art © by Gill xx