“Consider the lilies of the field,” Jesus is reported to have said in the Gospel according to Matthew,”how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.” “Consider the lilies” has come to be a familiar phrase in this culture and has caused many people, presumably, to consider the lilies (as but one example of the many beauties of the natural world). After all this considering…what have we come up with?