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Everlasting Cross

The Everlasting Cross, twisted as an infinity symbol or a Möbius strip, indicates everlasting love. It might be for romantic purposes (see Romantic Crosses) or it may take on the purely Christian meaning to remind us of Christ's everlasting love, through which we can enjoy everlasting life.



Everlasting Cross


Everlasting Cross

The infinity symbol infinity symbol conjures up all sorts of paradoxes. Infinity is not easy to understand. Think for too long about the 'fact' that there are an infinite number of points on a circle, and then realise for that to be true, these points would need to be infinitely small, that is, zero width. You end up with no circle but a splitting headache. So most of us non-philosophical, non-pure mathematical types, are content with the notion that infinity is as long as something that's really very long. How long we don't know, but longer than we need to worry about for all practical purposes. Infinite love is like that. It goes on for as long as we need, and then keeps going. That's pretty long.

Mobius strip
Möbius strip

Equally interesting is the Möbius (or Moebius) strip. It has a surface with only one side and only one boundary. (To make one, take a paper strip, give it a half-twist, and then join the ends together.) It has curious properties in that if you cut down the middle of the strip along a line parallel to its edge, instead of getting two separate strips, it becomes one long strip with two half-twists.

A mathematician confided
That a Möbius band is one-sided
And you'll get quite a laugh
If you cut one in half
For it stays in one piece when divided

This illustrates another definition of everlasting love: indestructible love.

See also Carolingian Cross, Bent Cross and Romantic Love Crosses


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