in the beginning...

...what? The willful creation of Everything by an omnipotent deity? The Big Bang? Some combination of the two? But before that event, what? Something? Anything?

Consider Nothing.

It's tough to consider, though, because how could Everything have arisen out of it? Where did the raw materials for that primordial explosion come from? Even if it all started as a vibratory phenomenon, either sound or light, that condensed into matter, what was it that vibrated? What was Nothing doing? Something was going on.

Then consider the possibility that back then, back before Time commenced (making "then" kinda rhetorical) there could never have been just Nothing. Not ever.

When you look up at the night sky, at the vastness, at the black emptiness between the lights, it's not too difficult to conceptualize Nothing. But conceptualizing is one thing; wrapping your mind around it is quite another. Attempting to relate to that Nothing is a project in itself. Too much to think about -- even impossible to think about, you have to just tune into it, let yourself go. (Let your self go.) And maybe that's all that really matters.