I believe as you do in the power of the universe and I also believe we are connected through that universe.

I think more or less as you do. I have actually stopped pondering on the imponderable, and have just decided that I may never get the answers to some questions....I’m 74 now, and have been looking for answers all my life. I am more convinced than ever that there is no creator, and no longer wonder about the great unknowables, I just accept that this universe of ours is full of mysteries, and am grateful for the short human lifespan which we are privileged to enjoy on this earth....with all the beauty and wonders of nature and human companionship.

In my opinion, you're absolutely correct about the existence of a creator being illogical (religious thinkers have long struggled with that question, and usually put it down to "the essence of the divine being unknowable to humans" or something along those lines because they haven't come up with anything better). However, "our universe, in it's endless cycles of expansion, collapse, and re-expansion has always existed" is demonstrably incorrect - by studying microwave background radiation and the red shift in spectral lines of distant galaxies (which prove the universe is expanding), it's possible to show that the Universe had a beginning and to estimate it, with a reasonable degree of accuracy, to around 13.8 billion years ago.