I Am There

Here's a beautiful poem to take to prayer:

I Am There

Do you need Me?  I am there.

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

You cannot hear 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 understand My works.

I am not strange visions. 

I am not incomprehensible mysteries.

Only in absolute stillness, beyond self, can you know Me as I AM,

and then perhaps but as a feeling and a faith.

Yet I am here. 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.

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 openness.

I am the law you can live by.

I am the love you can cling to.

I am your assurance.

I am your peace.

I am one with you.

Beloved, I am there.

                                                                                    By James Dillet Freeman

(left on plaque on the moon by Apollo XV astronaut James B. Irwin)