Love

This scientist had this theory, that there is a force in the universe that binds things together: proton to electron, moon to globe, and solar to system. It is a kind of cosmic gravity that pulls everything together. If there is an energy in the universe that impels separation, then the energy mentioned above is the elasticity that allows the accordion of our expanding universe to stay intact enough to make its music.

This scientist called this force "connectivity."

Connectivity hits every note on the scale of life. We have different words for it. Connectivity between peers we call friendship. Connectivity expressed genitally we call eros. Connectivity between mother and child, father and child? Call that maternal love or paternal love.

Connectivity between our physical bodies and food we call hunger.

On every level - physical, astronomical, social, biological, chemical - connectivity operates.

Alongside all these ties that bind the universe together, isn't there something else? A yearning and a pulling and a longing at the heart of everything for wholeness and harmony and union? The scientist didn't talk about this force.

I think we would call it Divine Love.

Gregory Mobley
Associate Professor of Old Testament