I believe in God because it makes me feel good and whole, as a person, to believe and acknowledge God. I grew up without religion. My parents never really told me anything about God. I also was a very troubled child/teen and did a lot of bad things, mostly to myself and although I believed in God then, I never really gave God much thought or openly talked about God (it was bad for my "bad-ass" image), until recently. After I lost the last of my (well...my only) "blood" family, I think I even hated God for leaving me so alone and confused. The more I hated, the more I was hurting.

My reason for believing may not be a good one but it works for me.