This isnt meant to be religious as much as it is spiritual...

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When I first opened my eyes, you were there.
I felt you.
When my little hands clutched at the air, I was reaching for you.
The little sounds I made, the cries and the coughing,
I was trying to call your name.
Even then, I knew you had created me.
You wanted me to be a man, human, to experiance life, love, pain.
And you meant for me to be proud, and strong.
And to lead others to you.
But the things of this earth, they enticed me. And I forgot.
I became greed, and anger, and fear, and envy.
Lust grew inside me. Gently, you reminded me.
One day my eyes will close again forever, and again,
I'll reach for you. I'll call your name.
My creator... please, be there , waiting to gather me up.
And hold me safe again. Like you did back then.
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I some times hear folks in the rooms say that God must be mad at them.
We have to understand, that God's "gentle" reminders, might be to us, cataclysmic
and earth shattering. When he "gently" reminded me... well Id hate to think if he'd been REALLY pissed. lol
I think that in my moment of insanity... two years ago, I had drifted so far from the spirit, that he said.. "OK, you wanna see what the world would REALLY be like without me?"  I never, never , want to see that again.
What a blessing this sobriety.