"Love currency"

PEARL G. ANDREWS

There may be times when we can seemingly become so engrossed with the thought of accumulating, conserving, or managing dollars and cents in order to pay debts or meet daily obligations that the spiritual demand, the debt of loving-kindness to our fellow men, is forgotten.

The desire to be prompt in the payment of a financial obligation, to reap enough recompense from our efforts to be enabled to do this, is a righteous desire, and one in which wise management and thrift should be practiced. But that is not enough. Should we forget or fail to abide by the Golden Rule in all dealings with our fellow beings, our debt would not be fully paid, no matter how conscientious our efforts materially to fulfill the financial requirement. Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 135), "If you falter, or fail to fulfil this Golden Rule, though you should build to the heavens, you would build on sand."

In commending the loving liberality of those who had pledged any part of two million dollars to the building of the extension of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, Mrs. Eddy said in part (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 14), "God will pour them out a blessing above the song of angels, beyond the ken of mortals—a blessing that two millions of love currency will bring to be discerned in the near future as a gleam of reality."

A student of Christian Science pondered the expression "love currency" with deep gratitude. To unfolding spiritual sense the possibilities of this currency were very great. Although in her own individual experience there had been satisfying proofs of God's gracious provision, still for some time there had been no assured sense of plenty, no complete demonstration with baskets left over. It had seemed a continuous struggle to make good her practice of meeting obligations exactly on time. This practice surely had been commendable. Yes, but what of her debt to Love? Had she been instant in her denial of any error seen, heard, or thought of in her loved ones, associates, and in that unknown throng passing by in the daily walks of life? Had she been quick to affirm the truth in an impersonal way for the good of all mankind? In fact, had she remembered to keep with diligence the commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour"?

With this gleam of enlightened understanding came an awakening to the realization that the demands of the letter had largely occupied her thought; that the greater ones, those of Spirit, had been left neglected and unpaid. In the anxious effort to demonstrate what is termed supply, real substance had not been considered. As she began to fill her consciousness—her mental home—with this true substance, this "love currency," she found that each day was bringing new blessings, evidences of abundant provision, and a joy and assurance never before possessed.

So, instead of looking down into our pocketbooks, let us look up to divine Love. Let us know that in truth we are made in God's image and likeness, the offspring of Love. As such, now and forever, we do reflect Love, with its beautifying and satisfying qualities of tolerance, compassion, patience, and loving-kindness. Then the robbing effects of criticism, impatience, harshness will cease to be a power or influence in our lives and we shall find ourselves busy in the circulation of that only which is good. As the result of our utilization of spiritual currency and with persistence in this righteous procedure, we shall behold the supply of those necessities of life to be not only sufficient but abundant. This currency can never be lost, obstructed, or withheld. We ourselves alone, through false belief, can seem to experience interrupted supply. This currency is always available, always sufficient, and always abundant for those who intelligently make demands upon its infinite resources.

Our great Exemplar, Christ Jesus, had so great a love for all humanity, so pure a knowledge of and trust in God's ability to provide, that he could furnish an ample feast for thousands at a moment's notice, with abundance left over. He could immediately pay his tax money upon demand. His understanding of true supply was so great that he has been justly called the richest man the world has ever known.

Although we seem not at present able to demonstrate as abundant supply as did this great master Metaphysician, still we can learn to imitate the tenderness and strength of his nature, and begin to exemplify in our daily lives divine Principle—the same Principle by which his remarkable demonstrations were accomplished. As we reflect those qualities of divine Love so evident in his life, we shall be obeying God's command, voiced by Malachi, "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house," and shall realize the promised blessing that "there shall not be room enough to receive it."

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