“What If Love
Science has revealed at last
What happened in the distant past
Back in the beginning of time
But from what the Cosmos came
Back before the great big bang
It’s finding more hard to describe
It could be anybody’s guess
So is it crazy to suggest
What if love
What if love
What if love is all it was?
And what if that love still sings
Is still alive in everything
Moving through the whole universe
Rising in the light and dark
Hiding in the smallest part
Burning like a flame that always burns
Like the atoms, like the air
Invisible but everywhere
What if love
What if love
What if love is all it was?
What if love were the organizing force
By which the beauty of the world emerged
That joined the particles into molecules
And living cells and redwood trees and bees and birds
And what if to act on love’s behalf, to practice kindness
Is the most natural thing of all
Then when we feel undone
Or sick because we’ve been spun
Around on the wheel of despair
We can just breathe it in
Reach for that source again
Reach out to what’s already there
The mystery from whence we came
Just for a song let’s give it a name
What if love
What if love
What if love is all it was?”
UU singer-songwriter Peter Mayer
King Edward Street Chapel 