"sunken treasure"

I'm speaking this weekend at Riverview on God's Will. And I've been thinking a lot about how people want to know God's will, they want a sign, or an impression that tells this to do this or that etc... It seems that we are looking for supernatural guidance, when so much supernatural guidance has already been given (see "the Good Book"). We want to touch heaven, we want a miricle right now before our eyes. But that got me to thinking that maybe our world is all backwards. I mean, if you think about it, the miracle has happened. That God created the world and that things work (realizing the FALL). Maybe this is the magic. Maybe when God does do something supernatural, that is going back to the normative state, pre-creation. The miracle stops? for a second while God intervenes. I'm not sure where my thoughts are on this exactly right now. I'm still thinking about it a lot.

Here are some thoughts from the book Orthadoxy, by G.K. Chesterton.

“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. IT may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we. The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore. Heaven may encore the bird who laid an egg...”