Love is the great pervasive energy of creation. One of the great scientific discoveries of modern times was made only recently when scientists, who were scanning the cosmic skies for years trying to find the source of the background radiation of the universe, stumbled across it, or finally found it. It was the proof that they were looking for, that the universe, as we know it, came into being in a single moment, a single act of creation which they call the Big Bang, very poetically. They say that everything that we can possibly know, including time and space, came into being out of this primal unity, out of this concentration of energy, of matter, which exploded at this moment of creation. From that moment of creation an energy, radiation, was emitted that has pervaded, and pervades, the entire universe. It bathes the universe. There is nowhere in the universe, no atom even, that doesn’t contain something of that original energy of the act of creation. It is a most wonderful image for us of love, which in the deepest understanding of creation, is the origin of creation. God, who is love, is the creator.
(Aspects of Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
