I haven’t written about a fingerprint of God for a long time. These are little signs or clues of the character of God that I see when I study His creation. Most of them are based in physics or astronomy.

I remember the first time I saw one. I was reading a book by Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe early in the morning and heard the Spirit say, “What you just read is what I am like.” I was dumb founded. I knew right there that God, creator of the universe had spoken to me and I sensed His pleasure at my finding the clue that He had left behind. I have been watching for them ever since.

I was so excited about this experience that all I wanted to do was share it. After all, a joy not shared is half a joy. But when I did, for the most part, I got blank looks. I couldn’t translate the insight to the point where someone else would get excited about it as well.

This lack of response had a dampening effect over time on my zeal to see “His Fingerprints” until last week. Last week I read two things that relit the spark. One was in the fourth chapter of Abba’s Child by Brennan Manning. Brennan was talking about “Christ’s present risenneess”. By this he means how we need to see Jesus as risen from the dead and with us now. He gave several concrete examples of clues that he, Manning, had seen and interpreted as evidence that God was alive and active in His life. Later in the discussion he quoted Fredrick Buechner, who, after seeing what he considered to be a ‘fingerprint’ said, “. . . . What it meant to me, what I chose to believe it meant was, you are in the right place, the right errand, the right road at that moment.”

How cool is that? These things that some consider coincidence or non-sense, if seen through spiritual eyes may be not only clues of what God is like but they may also be bread crumbs meant to encourage and lead us home.

The second thing I read last week was in an introduction to quantum mechanics entitled, How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel where I saw another fingerprint. Now, I should say that what I really needed to say today was that we need to practice seeing life through spiritual eyes and rejoice in the clues about God that we find. So, if you stop reading now I will understand. But if you are feeling benevolent read on.

In his book, Orzel, makes the point that everything can be described by an equation called a probability waveform. This mathematical statement says that all particles or objects have a probability of being everywhere in the universe. It may be 1 or it may be 0 or any other value but it has a value everywhere you look. So, everything has a probability of touching everything else. All of our probability waves are entangled.

While thinking about this it dawned on me that, this is what God’s ‘omnipresence’ is like or at least it is a way to think about it. Gods’ wave function has a positive value everywhere in the universe and it continuously intersects with mine and yours!

Omnipresence has always been one of those things that I had trouble wrapping my mind around. But here is a fingerprint, a sign post if you will that points directly to this divine characteristic. If this is too esoteric for you, I’m sorry, but it speaks to me.

Have a great week and if our waveforms should happen to go to 100% at the same place be sure to say hi.