The Story of Love

The Story of love.

by Bill Schaeffer

Before you were born, there was love.

Before your parents, your country, and even before your civilization was born, there was love.

Before the Greeks, and the Romans, and the Egyptians, and the Babylonians, and all the lost nations of antiquity, there was love.

Before Abraham, and Isaac, and even before Adam and Eve, there was love.

Before animals walked the earth, and the birds flew in the air, there was love.

Before fish swam in the seas, and even before the first one celled organism, there was love.

Before the earth and the moon and the planets and the sun, when the whole galaxy was just a spinning mass of super heated gas, there was love.

Before creation itself, and even before the beginnings of the entire universe, there was love.

In fact, love may be the single most important thing that all existence is made of.

Love is everywhere, if you look.

Love is the force of gravitational, and molecular, attraction.

Love is wanting to be in the same space at the same time. And of course, you can't. And that is where all the problems with love began. And that is why we have a universe, and a life; to try and help work out some of those problems.

The physicist Amit Goswami postulates that consciousness is the force that gives material form to existence and to the universe. We see what we are looking for and it seems real.

I say that it is love that moves consciousness, and it was love that started the universe, and it is love that keeps it going. And it will be love that pulls it all back together in that final bitter embrace. And when the universe is gone and there is nothingness, and nothing, forever and ever, there will still be love.

Just waiting.

Love just waits.

And love can wait forever and ever, and even just a little while longer if it has to, because that is what love does.

Love just waits.

Love just waits for love to love.

And then, love just loves.

And a whole universe springs forth into being, and the mystery of love continues.

Copyright ©2014 William Schaeffer