Article May 17, 2010 Issue

THE POWERFUL STILLNESS OF LOVE

BY IFIGENIA ZUVIA

THE SERENITY WE FEEL contemplating a glorious natural panorama, the reverent silence in a church, the peace emanating from a chapel half hidden by exuberant tropical vegetation—these can be treasured experiences.

Yet there is an even greater peace and stillness that makes prayer effective and helps us perceive the works of God. Mary Baker Eddy referred to it in her book Retrospection and Introspection, where she wrote, "Mind demonstrates omnipresence and omnipotence, but Mind revolves on a spiritual axis, and its power is displayed and its presence felt in eternal stillness and immovable Love" (pp. 88–89). The truths that Mind, God, reveals to us, allow us to feel "eternal stillness and immovable Love."

When I read those lines for the first time, they spoke to me profoundly of inspired spiritual revelation. Nevertheless, only recently did I understand the difference between the calmness that is so dear to us on a human level, and "the stillness of Love"—a spiritual reality that God Himself reveals as unchangeable power.

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