Article September 11, 1954 Issue

LET LOVE ORIGINATE AND GOVERN OUR THOUGHTS!

SUZANNE PAULSEN

"Love cannot be a mere abstraction, or goodness without activity and power." The truth of this statement made by Mary Baker Eddy on page 250 of her "Miscellaneous Writings" can be testified to by every Christian Scientist who has experienced the redemptive nature of divine Love in his life.

To avail ourselves of the full efficacy of Christian Science, we must claim the present actuality of Love, God, and allow it to enter and permeate our thinking. To the degree that we do this, Love becomes fundamental in our consciousness and provides an immutable standpoint from which to think and act. To let Love originate our thoughts would mean to let go of destructively critical attitudes about people and circumstances and to give up predetermined notions of how things should go. In short, it is allowing Love to unfold and define to us itself and its creation.

John declared, "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him" (I John 4:16). We admit that Love is power—omniscient, omnipresent. It is the only Life or Mind and possesses all vitality, originality, and actuality. Love is self-existent, self-expressed, and self-sustained Truth, the infinite all-comprehending, indivisible, eternal One. Love is always exact, dependable, and changeless because it is Principle; yet Love is at the same time infinitely tender, since it embraces the inexhaustible gentleness and purity of Soul, Spirit. Love is infinite conscious Being and is forever asserting itself as man's only impulsion, animation, and volition. These facts, understood and demonstrated, necessarily improve the present manifestation of love in our experience, and also act as a law of redemption to our concept of love, making us kinder and more charitable.

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