Editorial October 22, 1979 Issue

Melting icebound affections

NAOMI PRICE

The urge to express love is universal—and so is the capability to do so. Everyone is equipped with the resources of God, infinite divine Love, and is able to express affection warmly and affluently. All can bring healing compassion to people in need so that they are truly helped.

In God's universe, man is the actual expression of Love. "Identity is the reflection of Spirit," writes Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love."^{ Science and Health, p. 477;} A great wonder of God's universe is the infinitude of His manifestation of love.

This fact of divine Science can be comforting to those who feel that because they do not express affection as others do, they must be deficient in love for humanity as a whole, or who may doubt their own ability to feel and express affection to individuals in a satisfying way. People who do not see themselves as demonstratively loving as others appear to be are sometimes plagued with uncertainty on this score.

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