Article May 15, 2000 Issue

Can you choose whom to love?

How I learned to love both the teachers and students at my school

By Elizabeth Ward Beall

Do We Have to love everyone? Can't we pick and choose the ones we'll love? We might want to answer yes to the second question when we wonder how we could ever love an ex-spouse who was cruel to us, an employer who fired us, or a student who disrupts our class.

Yet the Bible has a different message. It teaches that not one of us is a stranger or enemy. We are all offspring of one Father-Mother God. "Man is the family name for all ideas,—the sons and daughters of God," writes Mary Baker Eddy, who founded this magazine (Science and Health, p. 515).

But sometimes it can even seem hard to love family members, not to mention total strangers. How do we do it? One way is through gaining an improved understanding of our common Parent. As we learn more of God, divine Love, and of how He has made each one of us in His own image, and then as we live what we learn, our love for others naturally grows.

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