Editorial January 30, 1984 Issue

What Love includes

CAROLYN B. SWAN

How blessed we all are when we appreciate divine Love by responding to what it is! Even omnipotent Love can't immortalize mortality, spiritualize materiality, or perpetuate personal sense. But Love does reveal our true being as immortal, spiritual, perpetually individual. There is comfort in Love for every human woe. There is redemption for the sinning and healing for the sick. These effects of Love can be found through understanding and demonstrating the Comforter, heaven-sent to make practical a correct view of Love as God. That Comforter is divine Science.

In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the Discoverer, Founder, and Leader of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, writes: "Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals. It is the open fount which cries, 'Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.'"^{Science and Health, p. 13.}

If we would avail ourselves of the comforting, redeeming, healing effects of Love, our loving must reflect this Love. By knowing man's true being as Love's reflection, we can learn to love impartially, universally. We can be healed of heated prejudices and enmities. Malicious mental suggestions need not inflame us.

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