In Johan Boyer's book THE GREAT HUNGER, he tells of a young civil engineer moving with his wife and two-year old child to a small town in Northern Norway. Their next-door neighbor was an elderly couple who kept a huge Russian wolfhound chained in their backyard.
One day the dog broke the chain, jumped the fence and killed the young engineer's child. The young couple were devastated at their loss. The whole community turned against the oldsters, shunning them, refusing to sell them anything, boycotting the sale of seeds in a spring season when a second sowing became necessary. The old folks were shriveling up, with little food and no prospects of a harvest.
One night the engineer rose out of his bed and went outside. His wife, alarmed, got up and searched for her husband. She saw him outside, sowing seed in the old folks' garden. When he returned to his kitchen, the wife was in tears and asked him why he did such a thing. He replied, "I did it in order that God might exist."
That's how God makes transition from idea to existence.
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