The X-files of faith.

I think, sometimes, we forget that God is supernatural.

Driving to work today was an amazing experience. It was one of those freakishly beautiful mornings where you cannot help but appreciate the stunningly gorgeous facets of the world in which we live.

The trees were dripping with the residue of rain, and a mist was rising from the wet grass. The sky was a brilliant blue, and the sun beckoned through the haze - you know, filtered in such a way that you could see individual rays. Wisps of clouds hung around the mountains.

I was listening to David Crowder, singing hallejuah along with him, taking pause to really worship God and to express my thankfulness and gratitude for what He is doing and has done in my life - and for Who He is. I thought about how incredibly blessed I am to know God, and my thoughts went to my AP kids.

They are such extraordinarily intelligent kids. Their intelligence causes me to look at them as peers quite often, because I feel like we're on the same wavelength. What has always surprised me about that class is the inordinate number of them that are Christians or are at least believers in God.

See, there's this trend among intellectuals to believe that there can't possibly be a God. One of my sharper college prep students, in his letter of appreciation (or perhaps letter of disgust - I couldn't quite tell), wrote: "You have taught me that the world needs its gods, and that it's much too annoying to try to prove it wrong." There is a bit more cynic in him than most intellectuals that I've encountered, but I find that those intelligent friends view it like this:

There's no rational explanation for God. Ah, I have the power of reason, and this allows me to shift through the loose ends of this thing called religion. There's no explanation for so many things - so many things that don't seem to add up, or that seem mystical, or that don't adhere to that which we know as Science.

But this resides on faulty logic - that God is required to operate under the terms and conditions of our world, our nature. That He is restrained by the same laws. God is outside human ration, reason and logic, and I think He is quite present, in His supernatural way, when the intellectuals deny the possibility of His existence based off of what we know with our human knowledge.

I think God must think, "I scoff in your general direction."