Credo
 I believe in God.I believe in God even though I have never seen Him.I believe in a loving God even in the face of the suffering that others and I have experienced and in which I can often see little purpose. I believe that, perhaps in ways that I can neither see nor understand, He brings good out of evil. I believe in a God who has always been a part of my life and without Whom I cease to exist, without Whom I cannot achieve my potential as a human being and as a woman.I believe that there is nothing good in me that He has not put there and nurtured, often with the help of others. I believe that there is no area of weakness or darkness in my life where God is not present, encouraging me to reach out for goodness, truth and light, giving me the strength to achieve these goals. I believe that, at the hardest times of my life, when I have been tempted to give up, it has been God’s support that has helped me to carry on.I believe that God has helped me to use all the struggles and pains, the failures and triumphs, the joys and sorrows of life to understand myself, others and Him more fully and to become a better person.I believe in a God Who fills life with pleasant surprises and makes it worth living I believe in a God Who has filled my life with people I love and who love me. Yet, when I realise, with wonder and joy, the extent of the love I have received from others, I am filled with the awareness that God loves me even more. I believe in a God Who is very unlike my childhood, romantic, idea of Him. Sometimes He is a stern disciplinarian. There are times when I am angry with Him. I have sometimes told Him that I have done with Him. I have questioned His existence, rebelled against what He seemed to be asking of me. Yet He has always been the integral part of everything I have ever said, thought or done. Time and again I have known that, even if God and I have not been seeing eye to eye, I cannot live without Him.I believe in a God Whom I love with every fibre of my being.I believe in a God Who speaks to me through the whole of Creation, through the words and actions of others and in the circumstances of my daily life.I believe in a God Who is my whole reason for living and for loving.I believe in a God Who empowers. Without Him I could not have the courage nor the will to leave behind the people and country I love on behalf of those whom I have never met.I believe that, through me, God can fulfil the hopes and needs of others. I believe in a God Who listens to me when I have not yet spoken and Who understands when I do not. I believe in a God Who, in the midst of turmoil, has given me peace. I believe I can talk to God about anything and everything without needing to be anybody or anything other than myself. I believe I can be in an easy, companionable relationship with God and that I can relax completely in His presence.I believe that God enjoys my company. I believe in God more deeply than in anybody or anything else in life. I love Him more deeply than I have the words to say. A lifetime is too short to come to know Him fully. I cannot conceive of living without Him. I am conscious of a need for Him and for times of aloneness with Him in prayer. I believe that God enriches all that I say, think and do. I believe in a God Whose love is personal and intimate, extending to all people of every time, race, colour and belief.I believe that God is the source of my joy, the goal of my deepest longings. I believe that God is my life.Sr.Janet Fearns |
