The Theory of Everything

For our 21st anniversary, we went to dinner and a movie.  That doesn't sound very special, but it was a very amazing dinner at a local Brazillian steak house and as some reviewers have said, a "sublime" movie:  The Theory of Everything.  The Theory of Everything is an unconventional love story about Steven and Jane Hawkings.  The title comes from Stephen's continued quest to marry the theory of relativity to quantum physics and somehow find one "simple and elegant theory" which could explain the genesis and functionality of nothing short of everything in the universe.  The emotional gravitas of the movie comes from the exceptional struggles, sacrifices and successes of the young and determined pair of great minds and good hearts who are Steven and Jane, but the backdrop of Steven's quest is likewise compelling.  It made me think of a scripture from The Book of Mormon.  A Christmas scripture, that includes what I propose as a sort of Theory of Everything:

And it came to pass that I saw the heavens open; and an angel came down and stood before me; and he said unto me: Nephi, what beholdest thou?  And I said unto him: A virgin, most beautiful and fair above all other virgins.  And he said unto me: Knowest thou the condescension of God?  And I said unto him:  I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things.

In the same breath that Nephi admits to not knowing the meaning of everything, he cites a theory which if fully explored could very well unlock the hazy "meaning of all things." I suppose Nephi wouldn't call it a 'theory', in that, as Nephi states, "[he] (already) knows that [God] loveth his children..." but could the simple yet active, responsive and relentless existance of God's love work as rather a template or key to the meaning of everything else?

There is another scene in the movie, when Steven proposes a landmark/although later disproven by himself/ theory on the origin of the universe. His mentoring professor tells him "brilliant!...and now, go to work!" In other words 'get busy' doing all the mathematical equations required to back up your case. Even though I also already know that God loves me and I believe all of his children too, it takes some going to work/ can even be a lifelong quest to understand/draw the lines between the love of God and the face of all the inequalities and injustices, drudgeries and tragedies of life --  but what if the key to "the meaning of all things" can only be arrived at by never letting go of such?  In addition, what if God's love brings along enough meaning on it's own, so that it's not so much unlocking the meaning of everything, (although it does do that) as it is presently embueing our everythings with meaning...almost like He can't help himself?  On top of it all, what if God's love can be a catalyst so transformative that those things which are the hardest to work out or justify today or even from our past, can one day be retroactively altered to a pure state beyond the limits of finite time and space as we know it..  The story of Christmas.  John 3:16.  What a simple & elegant thought, and better still...true.