the life everlasting.

I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
the Creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:

Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.

He descended into hell.

The third day He arose again from the dead.

He ascended into heaven
and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty,
whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy *catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting.

Amen.

those words were the guidelines by which i lived my life, day in and day out for the first 14. though i disagree with most of those catholic teachings, i am a product of my upbringing. i know the importance of a sentence that starts with "i believe..." i forget sometimes, though, to make those statements. so many of us forget, those words, i believe. we hope instead, that people can tell what believe from our clothes, the books we read, the people we are seen with. but i think sometimes, plain and simple, words are louder than words.

i believe in coffee and the need that a person sometimes has to keep going, even when they're going, going, gone. i believe in the diners and the power of late nights. i believe in girls, that in them there is a future, a better future. i believe in our voices, i believe in singing, because i swear, as doris did before me, that there is nothing wrong with your voice. i believe that, though it's trite, there is someone for everyone, i believe in love everlasting. i believe in you, you who i have met and you who i haven't, i believe in you because i need to. i believe in falling stars and snowflakes. in mothers and sons. in the truth underneath it all.

i belive.