Article January 19, 1946 Issue

Let It Be Enough!

MARY ELIZABETH WOODIN

"How much do you love me?" is a plaintive human query. When I was small, my mother and I must have asked each other often, for our standard answer, "More'n tongue can tell," became an accepted and familiar phrase. Other families have other answers —answers given with heartfelt sincerity in the honest assumption that the measure of love is indeed beyond words. Yet, how many of us have actually faced this as the vital question that it is?

Although we intimate that our love is more than we can express, is it enough? Do we, if parents, love enough to say "God's child" instead of "my child"? Do we love enough to know that though we will do all we can for that child, he will be safe with or without us, because God, omnipotence, is taking care of him? Can we see him as perfect because he is, in truth, the reflection of God, rather than because his human endearments have closed our eyes to any possible failings? Can we consistently remember that "mother" and "father" are but human appellations, and that God is the only real Parent, the sole creator?

Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" says (p. 476): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick." Elsewhere in the textbook it is pointed out that sickness and sin are healed by the same method. Even though we may not be called on to do specific mental work for our loved ones, we may by loving them enough to see them as they are, "God's own likeness," truly serve them. Here, indeed, is our outlet for the other equally familiar human longing to show how much we love! Compared to maintaining "this correct view." how vain are the human dreams we may dream for the future of our loved ones! As the Scripture says (Isa. 45:11). "Ask me of things to come concerning my sons."

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