The Fabric of God. Discovering God in the Fabric of… | by Mohamed Aboelez | May, 2024 | Medium

There I was just a few minutes ago, brushing my teeth and pondering the things of math and God and I started questioning what my mission is. I found myself asking, “How do I weave God into the fabric of mathematics?”

And that’s when it hit me. I don’t need to weave God into the fabric of mathematics, because mathematics is weaved into the fabric of God. Over the past few years, I have been searching for ways to infuse God in my math classes. How backward that is. Maybe it’s just terminology, but what I really need to be looking for is how God wants to reveal Himself to my math students through mathematics. This is where I need to give up the control that I think I have and let God do the teaching/revealing.

I can easily wonder if I should teach through simile or analogy; or should the spiritual lessons be rooted in learning discipline through the rigors of the course or work ethic (work as unto the Lord). Just thinking these things reminds me of how simple, or linear I am. I know there are multiple ways to solve most if not all problems. I know that there are generally three representations of all things mathematical, but I have a difficult time relying on God to supply the words and connections that my students need in order to see mathematics in the context of God. Even this last sentence was almost written,

Let me unpack that for a moment. The wording seems to imply that God is something that exists within the realm of mathematics, which in a sense is true, but if I were to ask only on the basis of the quotation above, “Which is bigger, God or mathematics?” wouldn’t you have to say mathematics? What I need is a total shift away from seeing mathematics as an entity that exists on its own, but as a rich and beautiful thread that is woven through the very nature of God. It exhibits so many qualities that we see in God…consistency, reliability, beauty, and power, while at the same time being mysterious, unfathomably deep, and limitless (not the Calculus type of limits).

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