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| Window from St. Peter, Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin |
On
the Third Day of Christmas
Stephen
Hawking:
Even if there is only one possible unified
theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire
into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual
approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the
questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does
the universe go to all the bother of existing?
– ‘A Brief History of Time’
Rowan
Williams:
When we're invited into the stable to see the
child, it's really being invited into the engine room [of the universe]. This is how God works;
this is how God is. The entire system of the universe, 'the fire in the
equations'...is contained in this small bundle of shivering flesh.
The universe lives by a love that refuses to
bully us or force us, the love of the cradle and the cross.
[Christmas] tells us exactly what Good Friday and
Easter tell us: that God fulfils what he wants to do by emptying himself of his
own life, giving away all that he is in love.
Our life as Christians, our obligations, our
morality, do not rest on commands alone, but on the fact that God has given us
something of his own life. We are caught up in his giving, in his creative
self-sacrifice.
– ‘Choose Life, Christmas and Easter Sermons in
Canterbury Cathedral’
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