If you are switching between channels on an analog antenna TV and get stuck between channels, you will see a “snow” of swirling black and white pixels. This static or noise is not something that the television stations generate to let you know you haven't reached the right channel yet. It is the result of antennas picking up undirected electromagnetic radiation. One of the main sources of this is called cosmic background microwave radiation. Cosmic background microwave radiation, or CBMR, comes from the very beginning of the universe and fills the immensity of space evenly and uniformly. Up until about the 1940s, this cosmic background microwave radiation that existed everywhere in the universe was completely unknown to us. It can't be seen by the naked eye. In fact, it is so faint that it can only be detected by very sensitive instruments. The light and the love of God is like the cosmic background microwave radiation. It fills the immensity of space. It is in and through and a part of all things. And yet, unless we are very sensitively tuned to receive it, we will miss it completely. “And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.” (Matthew 13:14-15). There are thousands of television channels that can bring us all kinds of news and entertainment, but just as we can tune our antenna between TV channels to see the cosmic background microwave radiation, we can tune the world out so that we can see and perceive and understand the light and the love of our Savior and then be converted and healed by it. I know that God's love is all around us, but it takes effort and devotion to truly recognize and acknowledge and receive the full blessings from it.
