Brain-fryer
Is Love infinite? Yeah, let's tackle an easy subject.
I can remember, as a child, asking my mother about the idea that God has no beginning and no ending. Apparently, I was ok with the "no end" part, but was flummoxed by the idea that nothing came before God. I think it's interesting that I remember asking, but have no idea what she said. I only remember that I was wrestling with it.
I had yet to encounter "big bang" ideas, so hadn't pondered what it means to live in an infinite universe.
My next memory of dealing with the idea of infinity still involved God. In a church youth group discussion, I said that I thought the reason we have a hard time wrapping our brains around God's infinitude was that literally everything we know has a beginning. So it makes sense that a God beyond everything we know would be difficult to imagine.
It was easier in those days to say, "Just accept it by faith" and move on. Many people today use that coping device. Now, instead, I'll say, "That just doesn't make sense." It's not that everything has to make sense to me, but I'm more likely to accept whatever option is more "likely."
But back to my first question: is Love infinite? Right now I'm thinking yes. After all, no matter how many people or things we love, can't we always love at least one more? Infinity is everything plus one.
Let's stipulate for a moment, for the sake of argument, that Love is infinite and, as the writer of 1 John states, "God is love." Or let's get more "natural" and say that God is in the process. God is in the pattern.
OR, more to my pantheistic taste, God IS the process or God IS the pattern. Is it not merely a small leap to think that Love is the process and pattern? Perhaps the popular idea of "getting in tune with nature" is made real by loving. Hmmm.