God and Compost

Recently I constructed a compost bin. Not some pre-formed plastic number from a garden centre, but, in the spirit of recycling, using otherwise discarded lengths of timber. It turned out, if not beautiful, at least functional.
The timber was not intended for this purpose being essentially the frame and laths of an old wooden bed combined with frames from dilapidated shelving units. The whole lot had lain tied in bundles for weeks and might easily have become part of a 5th November bonfire.
However, the need to replace an ad hoc compost pile that was spilling uncontrollably became pressing. With saw, hammer and nails the old bed and shelving became the new compost bin.
This is a product of human purpose and endeavour linked with happenstance, the fortuitous availability of the raw materials. The bin is not the result of pure chance and accident, neither is it a precise component of a carefully drawn plan.
Also, that bin exists because of human being. For hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of years, humans have developed tools, techniques and know-how that may well have begun with sharpened sticks and has progressed Mar’s rovers.
The timber for the bin was purposely grown, harvested and fashioned for other purposes, functions once served enabled the use of the materials to be redirected. Similarly, iron ore was mined smelted and subjected consciously to processes resulting in hammer and nails.
The builder was able to call upon skills developed over millennia to bring the required elements together with a purpose. As soon as the last nail was driven home and the first consignment of peelings deposited thoughts turned to spring next year and using the resulting compost in the garden.
Such is human being: not as a single person, but the collective of every human there’s been, is now and ever shall be. Similarly, divine being, often referred to by such a simple word as God, does not mean some single entity, but the whole dynamic making creation possible, whether a single atom or whole galaxies.
Like all analogies, comparing human being with divine being has severe limitations; fundamentally that human being is a part of divine being which is so much greater it stands beyond direct human comprehension.
Yet the analogy does allow for an indication that just as human being has progressed purposefully, even incorporating chance and accidents into that progress, so divine being on, and perhaps beyond, the cosmic scale, acts in ways that to human eyes appears purposeful.
All of this is stated in human terms, how could it be otherwise? This is the basic difficulty with considering God because whatever is said or written must always be inadequate. How would we expect a fly to describe the latest computer software?
There are undoubtedly those who’d say this whole premise is a load of compost. If that’s all it is maybe it’ll at least fertilise a growth in thinking. Anyway, this is a personal reflection not a rebuttal of anyone else’s view.
However, my rough and ready compost bin is as much evidence of human being as the finest art or scientific discoveries. Nature, the universe and our conscious appreciation of it is the best indication of divine being, God.