Editorial February 17, 1997 Issue

Love for others and renovation of the heart

Russ Gerber

Talk to people who devote themselves to helping their fellowman, and you're bound to find people who have learned what it really means to love.

Dave Glass is such a person. He is Methodist minister in rural Woodsfield, Ohio, and he knows the importance of learning to love. "That's what your heavenly Father wants for you every day. You have to learn to love," Glass told Allan Luks, author of The Healing Power of Doing Good. "Tear that crusty exterior down and realize that the joy and the energy and the enthusiasm and the health and the immunity, all of those things are produced by our obeying this book right here [indicating the Bible]." The Healing Power of Doing Good (New York: Ballantine Books, 1991), p. 164 .

Such love is obviously more than a lukewarm affection, the kind that's barely enough to produce a polite smile now and then. It's a heartfelt love so constant that it becomes a law governing all of one's life; so all-inclusive that it can be only the reflection of perfect divine Love, God. What is it that a genuine love for others does to make our own life vital and healthy? It brings our thoughts and actions into accord with that divine Love, with the divine Principle of harmony. When love is uppermost in our thoughts, governing us, the whole range of human experience, including our health, is made better.

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