CS Lewis explains nature’s grand purpose

In these seemingly endless rhythms of earth and sky, God has constructed a huge metaphor, an image of His depth and largeness and constancy, reassuring us from day to day and year to year. As CS Lewis wrote: “The huge dome of the sky is of all things sensuously perceived the most like infinity. And when God made space and worlds that move in space, clothed our world with air, and gave us such eyes and imaginations as those we have, He knew what the sky would mean to us. And since nothing in His work is accidental, if He knew, He intended (Miracles 258). So, noticing and appreciating the balancing act between the day and the night is no accident. We are reassured and inspired by nature’s grand patterns because God “intended” us to be reassured and inspired. (From Living Large, chapter 1. ©️ 2013)