Editorial August 8, 1977 Issue

Love's Allness: What It Means for Us

Geoffrey J. Barratt

Divine Love is God, and is All. This necessarily has direct bearing on our lives. Understanding Love's allness liberates and heals. It gives us the basis for meeting all challenges. The slightest glimpse of immortal Love simultaneously begins dissolving that basic challenge: fear. And when fear is gone, the foundation of problems is taken away.

Love makes no conditions that can cause us concern. And conditions that Love does not make are not real. Love's creation is ideal. It includes no disease or hostility. It excludes lovelessness and loneliness as possibilities or claims. The healing recognition of this scientific fact is within reach of everyone, and no one is out of reach of the healing power of this fact. The right recognition of the truth of being adjusts whatever needs to be adjusted in order to illustrate the potency of Love in individual experience. Depression or dismay cannot stand before the willing admission of the omnipresence of Love.

We can never be beyond Love, for there is nowhere that God is not. The truth is that we can find ourselves—our real selves—in Love because Love is All. Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with key to the Scriptures: "God is Love. He is therefore the divine, infinite Principle, called Person or God. Man's true consciousness is in the mental, not in any bodily or personal likeness to Spirit."^{Science and Health, p. 302;}