I saw God in the swirls of water in a pot.

The water had ceased boiling and vortices formed as I moved a utensil through it.

Let me digress. More than 30 years ago, I worked for a college of engineering. One of my many roles was to speak about engineering to kids from the third grade and up.  When my audience was middle school students, I would try to stump them with a simple question: “To be an engineer, you’ll need to know two languages. I’ll spot you the first – English.  What is the second?”  Only once did someone come up with right answer. A girl quietly said from the back of the room, “Math?”  Ding, ding, ding!

I used that question to describe how math is a very precise language that is used by engineers. I explained how you can get words out of order or use poor grammar and there is still a good chance that you will be understood sufficiently. In math, however, an out-of-place operand or parenthesis and the meaning and the answer can be completely different than what was intended. Math requires precision. It also describes precision, organization and predictability governed by laws (studied in physics, not in the legal profession).

That brings me back to the swirls in the pot of water. As I watched them move about, I thought, “There are equations for that.” There is such exactness and organization in the water movements that the most precise of languages must be used to accurately “describe” what is happening to create the swirls. So it is with all; there are equations to describe with a clarity and preciseness that evades words. So precise, organized and consistent is all of creation that it could only come from the Master Designer – God. Chaos cannot design order.

I believe God wants us to see His hand in everything because it is there, and because that recognition can help set right the understandings we should have about the universe and our place in it.