Ever-Expanding Love

Last updated on: August 12, 2022 at 1:02 pm by Ben Hartford

Ever-Expanding Love 2022-08-12T13:02:10-04:00 Ben Hartford

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Love exists, right? We know it does. We see it in a mother’s tender embrace, in a firefighter’s selfless plunge, and in the eyes of our spouse. True love continues to grow. The love I have for my older children is more robust and multifaceted than the love I have for my younger children, even though my love for the latter is more joyful and my love for the former more staid. And my spousal love today for She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed is deeper and wider than the day we wed.

We also know that the universe exists and it is always expanding. Edwin Hubble (as in, the Hubble Telescope) was talking about this in the 1920s and 30s. And because the universe exists and is expanding, it has to have expanded from something. The Big Bang. Boom. Exploderrific. Georges Lemaître – a Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, physics professor, close friend of Einstein, and considered to be the father of the Big Bang) pointed out that an expanding universe must have an origin point. Turns out he was right.

Continuing, we know that the law of entropy demands that nothing created can be greater than its components. There will always be some energy bleed, some leftover matter, something destroyed in the process.

As a final groundwork point, we know that nothing happens without cause. Even if that cause is beyond our comprehension – such as a parent appearing from nowhere in a game of peekaboo with an infant – there still must be a cause.

Therefore, we have a universe with love in it and both are boundless and ever expanding. And we know that there must be a cause. That cause, by necessity, must be all powerful and exist outside of time and space, because the universe’s expansion is bound by time and space. It also must be all loving and must be good – not in the way a candy bar is good, or in the way a Boy Scout is good, but more like a diamond is carbon – for the cause to have created ever-expanding love, it has to be greater than it. And the only way to be greater than something that is ever-expanding, is to be the pure version of that something.

So the cause of the universe is all powerful and all loving. If it is love, and that love is beyond boundless, then how much must it love you?

Boundlessly. God, the cause, loves you beyond boundlessly and with all power. To the point where he defeated death itself by sending his son to live among us, sacrifice himself, and return to give us the Holy Spirit.

What are willing to do in response? Casually accept it? Or a radical acknowledgement? How will you let that love change you?

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