Seeing through spiritual eyes

I was conscious of having a choice, this morning, as I walked with Spider through yellow daffodils and forsythia, pink dogwood blooms, a smear of pale green in the treetops, and crocuses arrayed in candy-striper uniforms. I could say to myself: Spring has returned, because that's what spring does. Or I could say: Spring has returned because God is still keeping his promise to Noah.

I have been praying for eyes to see everything spiritually --- that is to say, the way they really are. I don't think there is much danger of "overdoing" it, as if I will tend to "spiritualize" phenomena that are merely "natural" or "coincidental" occurrences. The danger is more likely in the opposite direction, to miss his signatures in the daily events of life. (I like the parable Anne Lamott tells of the man who drowned waiting for God to save him, refusing all other offers of help. God replied: "Well let's see, I sent you a jeep, a boat, and a helicopter.")

Nothing is "automatic." "The regularities that scientists describe are the regularities of God's own commitments and actions….Scientists describe the regularities in God's word governing the world. So-called natural law is really the law of God or word of God, imperfectly and approximately described by human investigators" (Redeeming Science, Dr. Vern Poythress).

"Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, for the Lord who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field" (Zechariah 10:1).