A Verse On Sunday

The Gospel According To John, Chapter 1, Verse 1.
'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.'

Jesus Christ, our Lord is the Word. The Word gives meaning, form, ownership. God gave Adam the gift of speech, to give names to all creatures and all things of this earth. The animals, who cannot speak, can only relate to something else from the perspective of their own appetite. A creature might be something to eat, or something which might eat the animal. A stone or a river is simply an obstacle.
But mankind, through the gift of speech, knows meaning. And Jesus is the original Word, who was with God and was God, right at the beginning.
 It is Jesus, God Himself, who brings meaning out of chaos, who brings life and love  and form and harmony to a mass of nothing, whose love redeems us from an eternity of animal egotism.