Even if I go as far as I can go, deep down into the watery caverns of memory or way up to the limits of my imagination: still you are there, waiting to find me. You are everywhere at once. Once and always, an endless presence around every cosmic corner, patient and enduring, trustworthy and infinitely good. You are now and forever now, the start and the finish, the laughter and the tears, the Spirit of all creation, the loving Spirit of all our dreams for as long as we have been dreaming. You were there, Spirit of life, when I first breathed your air into my lungs and you will be there when I hand that life back again. You are everywhere at once, once and always, my source and my goal, Spirit of endless beauty, my home
and my destination.

~ Steven Charleston

Yangshuo Guilin, China – photo by kenny001, bigstockphoto.com