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From the age at which I became aware of the concept of a Supreme Being, there has never been any doubt in my mind that God is a true being.

Yes, I consider myself more religious than many people. And yes, I go to church every week and read the Bible. But I perceived God as a true being long before I did either of those two things.

Growing up in a farming area of Ohio, I was fortunate to spend a lot of time outdoors. While I don't list it on my resume, I still claim to be able to tell one breed of cow from another in the field. Even as a child, I found it impossible to look at my mother's wild rose bush and note how the petals of each red flower nestled within each other without realizing that someone so much greater than a human being designed these objects of beauty.

When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon on July 16, 1969, I had just finished my junior year of college. That summer I interned as a reporter on the local daily newspaper. I recall coming home from work and looking up at the moon on a very black night. I got chills up and down my spine pondering who had created the moon and who had made this space journey possible.

Ten years later, I gave birth to my daughter. Having never considered myself potentially high on the motherhood scale, I was shocked and humbled at the wave of emotion I experienced holding her for the first time. Only a Supreme Being could make a mother feel such a fierce and instant protectiveness.

I wandered over to the opposing side of the debate to read what others had to say before I wrote this piece. I came to one solid, immovable conclusion: sometimes people cannot believe in a God who is a being versus an invention of the imagination because they cannot accept the idea that any being would exist on a level far beyond anything human beings can understand. If we can't conceive it, they rationize, it can't be.

Faith for most of us is a combination of what is understood and what is felt. Sadly, over the years, many of us have come to justify "gray" or permissive behavior because, we rationalize, a Supreme Being would want us to feel good about ourselves.

However, maybe this is not always so. Perhaps the part of faith that's clearly understood written in Scripture and also passed down by tradition seems at times so absolute because it was created by a being who exists so far beyond the human dimension.

When you sniff the rose, though, He doesn't seem very far away at all.

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