Article November 19, 1955 Issue

HARMONIOUS RELATIONSHIP THROUGH DIVINE LOVE

LESTER G. BESOLD

"God is our Father and our Mother, our Minister and the great Physician: He is man's only real relative on earth and in heaven." In these concise words on page 151 of "Miscellaneous Writings," Mary Baker Eddy gives the basis for working out our problems of human relationships, problems which sometimes loom large in our experience.

The admission that God, divine Love, is the only creator, the only Father and Mother of man, and that man has no other "real relative on earth and in heaven" must be our starting point. Is it not plain, then, that all of God's children, having one Parent, divine Love, have in reality no relationship with each other except through divine Love?

The mortal belief that we have real relationships based on material origin, law, or association is a denial of the omnipotence and omnipresence of Love, and this belief is always the cause of separation and loss of love. This wrong concept brings in its train misunderstanding, disappointment, and sorrow. Accepting this false premise of life and substance as existent in matter, we lose sight of man's true spiritual nature as the child of God, the forever reflection of goodness, and thus we experience discord.

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