Editorial October 12, 1974 Issue

Love Heals

Carl J. Welz

Why don't people love more? Even when they learn that God is Love and that loving one another is a way of identifying oneself with Love as Love's idea, some people seem more determined to look down on others than to love them. In fact, when they learn the truth that God, man's Life, is Love, they sometimes seem to use it to put someone down, insisting that this is love because what they are telling him to do is what is best for him. A rather poetic description of the motivation for such thinking is given in the Bible: "spiritual wickedness in high places."

The whole quotation, from Ephesians, is, "Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."^{Eph. 6:11,12;}

Paul's admonition points out the defense we need against the error that would keep us from expressing the love that heals. Divine Love heals. When we consciously reflect divine Love, we can love in a way that uses Love's healing power. But if we do not guard our consciousness, we can be made to believe that self-importance is primary and that even expressions of love should subserve it. Then, when an opportunity occurs to help someone in distress, the words we speak show we do not understand what is troubling him. And when he goes away, we find ourselves thinking he is unreceptive to what we have to give.

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