The other day, a little boy asked me if I believed in God. Unashamed, I replied with a simple, "yes, I do." Knowing that they did not, I didn't push it any further. The little boy looked at me like I was completely crazy. His sister politely said, "He didn't mean to offend you." I wasn't offended at all, but was he right to look at me like I was insane?

Definitely not. I wholehearted believe in God and if not God specifically, then definitely a Higher Power, who created everything on the earth and beyond and who has power over everything that the Being created.

As I talked on the phone with my good friend, Doreen, the next day I told her the story. I said to her that it was shocking to me that kids nowadays don't believe in anything. I grew up believing in God so I cannot fathom there not being a God. But, some people are completely opposite and cannot fathom there being a God.

If there is no God (or Higher Power) who created all this? Everything we see. Everything we feel, hear, or smell. How did this just all come about, without anyone controlling it? It crazy to me when people don't believe in SOME Higher Power. Just when you look around and see the sun rise and the rain fall and the different color just those two things make. The different process of it all.

I was talking to Doreen outside and I was looking around at nature. I told her that just the grass baffles me. There's just this long green stuff growing out of the ground everywhere and I don't even know how it's growing (yes, I've forgotten my biology lessons).

And grass is just a simple thing. What about the mountains in Colorado or the oceans surrounding us or all the different pieces of land scattered around the globe. What about each and every individual person being made completely different. For people to say that "boom, there is was" is the most confusing thing in the world to me.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gensis 1:1, NIV). God saw that it was all good and He loved everything that He created. Humans were the one to go and mess it up because of the free choice God granted to us. Everyone has a choice in what they believe and I chose to believe in God.

All I can do is act in a way that stands out and is different so that maybe I can be an influence in those kids lives or anyone's life that I come across with (in the great words of Doreen Rossi).