Spring, the dormant natural world resurrected into birth, growth, blossoming, life itself. Skeptics would have us believe that our theological fancies are but extensions of the natural concepts themselves—i.e. Easter Christianizes our experience of spring--that religion is but a fictitious analogue of the natural world. Isn’t it just as likely that this world was made as it is precisely to give us a taste of what is to come, that this world partakes just a little bit in the transcendent world to which it points? There is a cart and a horse, but the skeptics reverse their proper order.
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It reminded me of what CS Lewis wrote in the Last Battle. Jewel the unicorn, after entering "heaven" in the book, declares that the reason he loved the old Narnia so much was that it resembled the real Narnia that he was currently in.
It's a very Lewisian idea; I’m sure I got it from him since it’s a recurring theme for him. Of course he states it far greater logical and literary force than what I do.
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