In the beginning, there was nothing at all. Nothing, that is, except God—Father, Son, and Spirit as a circle of joyful love. However, this God chose to create all things. Our cosmos is no mere accident, but the loving and purposive work of the one true God. Creation expresses the Father’s love for his Son in the Spirit. For the Father made all things through the Son and FOR the Son. (Colossians 1: 16).  His long-range plan is that everything would be brought together and summed up in Jesus, his Son. However, in creating all things for the Son, God also created all things for us in the Son

Some may ask why creation exists at all.  Why is it what it is and not something else? There is no reason why there is something and not nothing apart from the eternal movement of Love within the life of God. The movement of love which overflows from the Father, through the Son and in the Spirit. This is the almighty love of the triune God who does not will to exist for himself alone but for others also. The ungrudging and unrestrained overflow of Love that delights to give life and freedom to his creatures. He loves the world, upholds it and blesses it. He acts in the power of his love to bring us into his own life and freedom.

As we survey the universe with wonder before its immensity and complexity along with its beauty we are in awe of the almighty God of love who made it all from love, through love and for love.  In all its diversity we see it as a great masterpiece of love.