Acts 17:15,22-18.1; Psalm 148:1-2,11-14; John 16:12-15

She asks me “Why are we alive?”

i do not know
why we are alive
but that we are
not fashioned
as image
in gold
silver
or stone
or by our own design
but in the life
and breath
given
by our creator
into a created world
where we move
and have
our being
by the one
who says “I AM”
by the one who says
“love”

What are we alive?