I Believe

Belief is not something

you defend while you wait

for the world to change or acquiesce.

It's not even something

that changes you.

It is the intellectual sum

of the actions you've already taken,

the questions with which you're wrestling,

and the relationships you're nurturing.

When your beliefs stop changing

and growing, so do you.

If this happens, no matter what else

you think you're doing,

you're mostly just waiting to die.

 

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