God’s fingerprints

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:3 KJV)

Many of the things in our lives have explanations. Someone is healed of a serious disease, and the doctors credit a new medical technique or medicine. Someone survives an avalanche and walks away unscathed, because they were prepared with the right equipment. We look for explanations to try to understand. Or we look for God’s divine intervention in the form of miracles.

Well, frankly, as I realized today, I do both. I believe and appreciate all the scientific explanations of everyday phenomena. I’m especially interested in meteorology and understanding how the weather works. But I also believe in miracles.

 I believe in a God who hears and answers prayer.

 I think it’s a wonder of God’s creation that my jasmine blooms after a dry, harsh winter. I thought maybe the bush hadn’t survived, but then, after the first warm spring rains, with the rising temperature, I see tiny buds burst out and I’m sure it’s part of God’s miracle of creation. A horticulturist might explain about the plant species and zonal growing periods and be content with a scientific explanation.

 I believe we’re both right; there is an explanation, but that doesn’t hurt my sense of wonder. I enjoy hearing evidence about the world around me, and it only supports my amazement at the myriad signs of God’s fingerprints that nature presents us with every day. —Joyce Suttin [1]

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God. —Ronald Reagan

[1] Activated Understanding Miracles