One of my questions recently has been: How does God as a non-physical/spiritual being interact with the physical world? Does He tweak probabilities on the quantum level to make things happen His way? I have no idea. Is it even possible to know (mechanistically) how this happens?
As I've been pondering this question and not coming up with many answers, I came across this excerpt from a poem by T.L. Harris in 1855. Recognizing the age-old rift between the physical and non-physical, Harris rightly (and beautifully) declares that this is not a problem for God:
Born from the darkest age
Of superstition is that ancient creed
That matter is the enemy of good,
Accursed and hateful to the Infinite;
For every atom is a living thought,
Dropped from the meditations of a God,
Its every essence an immortal love
Of the incarnate Deity; and all
The inmost pulses of material things
Are mediums for the pulses of His will.
God's harmonies through matter pour their flood
Of billowy music. Nature is a rose,
Whose breath, and leaves, and buds, and flowers disclose
The beauty of the One All-Beautiful;
The grace and charm whose source is the Divine.
T.L. Harris - A Lyric of the Golden Age
