"...doctrines are like lenses or prisms that make it possible to see things in a new way. We need to look at the world through a doctrinal framework, rather than allow ourselves to become fixated on those doctrines themselves...Herberts poem(Quoted earlier) challenges us to avoid being mere theological mechanics, and instead to open our eyes to the new world of ideas that theology makes possible." -Alister Mcgrath, Creation, p.27.

As a child who is always playing on the railroad tracks so I am in constant danger of studying the theology, nature, culture, and even the bible as means in themselves. Instead of looking, observing, and analyzing them to see more the glory of God in the dispersion of his attributes to the giving of thanks for his common grace and mercy. This inturn would inevitably lead to a richer, fuller, more complete worship of him, to the praise of the manifestation of his glory. Let us look upon this world and glory in Him.

"All creatures of this tangible world lead the soul of the wise and contemplative person to the eternal God, since they are his shadows, echoes and pictures...They are set before us for the sake of our knowing God, and are divinely given signs. For every creature is by its very nature a kind of portrayal and likeness of that eternal Wisdom" -Bonaventure (1217-74)