John 1.1

'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.'

Jesus Christ, our Lord, is the Word.
The Word gives meaning.
God gave Adam the gift of speech, the ability to make sense out of reality, the power to give names to all the creatures of this earth. The animals cannot speak. Animals can only relate to something from the aspect of their own appetite. An animal might see another animal as something to be eaten, or as something that might eat it. A stone or a fence is simply an obstacle.
But mankind, through the gift of speech can create meaning. And Jesus is the original Word, who was with God, who was God, right at the beginning.
It is Jesus, God Himself, who brings order out of chaos, who brings life and love and meaning to a mass of nothing, whose love redeems us from an eternity of animal egotism.