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Eye on the world: Loving your enemies
“Talking to enemies,” an editorial in The Christian Science Monitor comments on the decisions that governments make in choosing whether or not to engage with adversaries. It notes: “Such diplomatic engagement needs both clear-eyed realism and moral clarity.”
In her article, “How strife may be stilled,” Mary Baker Eddy writes, “The Principle of all power is God, and God is Love. Whatever brings into human thought or action an element opposed to Love, is never requisite, never a necessity, and is not sanctioned by the law of God, the law of Love” (pp.278-279).
“True victory comes only through love” explains, “We free ourselves from enemies by loving them, but this does not mean that we are to love an evil mortal. It means that we should have a clear concept of God as divine Love and of man as Love's reflection and thus see that any other sense of man is but an evil suggestion, which has no more power than we give it.”
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