The love of God has been poured into our hearts. (Romans 5:5)
When I was at school we had to learn the periodic table. I found it very dull - yet I later discovered that the reality behind it was fascinating.
These Protons, neutrons and electrons were tiny building blocks which make up so many different materials.
Nowadays even more is known about these tiny particles: we now have positrons, quarks, dark matter and anti-matter, string theory, the Higgs boson ... Its breathtaking, and also mind-boggling.
And amazingly, the very tiny seems to be so much like the very large, the universe itself - planets, stars, moons, spread over million miles of space.
You see, Everything is related to everything else. Amazingly powerful, yet sometimes hidden forces link and bind everything. Gravity unites planets with stars, and moons with planets. Tiny electrical charges tie electrons to atoms, and bind protons and neutrons. Stars lies in galaxies, and atoms combine to make substances and chemicals. Water is a combination of just hydrogen and oxygen, and then the tides of great bodies of water are moved by the moon.
Great and Small, unbelievably massive and invisibly tiny, Everything is related to everything else. Even people. Especially people. "No man is an island", the Poet John Donne wrote.
And this is all because God who Created all these things is himself harmony, relationship, connection. He is one, yet three. His creation reflects his glory, the glory of the deepest bonds of all, of family, Father, Son, and Spirit - a relationship which gives itself eternally, yet without ever diminishing.
He is bound together by the strongest bonds, yet He gives himself with infinite generosity. We call him Trinity.
And the force that unites him and which he shares with us, the force that enfolds him and which embraces us, that force is not electricity, nor is it gravity. We call it Love.
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