UPFRONT June 6, 2005 Issue

The greatest gift

PATRICIA KADICK STAFF EDITOR

LOVE: No greater gift to give, or to receive. And joy of joys—in the giving and the receiving, love simply multiplies, smoothing edges and softening hearts beyond perception. I like to envision love as heaped and running over, bursting out in color, sweeter than the scents of springtime and summer—lilacs, roses, fresh mown grass. And ever lasting.

Mary Baker Eddy lived the essence of love by healing and teaching others to heal. In her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures she defined God as the origin and Mother of all love—as Love itself, a divine Presence supplying us with an infinite capacity to love (see p. 587). And with spiritual ideas that give our natural desire to love, courage, spontaneity, wisdom, and backbone.

Even the strongest human yearning to love is no guarantee of it. Yet loving spiritually is a talent of the heart, a gift from God already within each of us, heaped and running over. And Mrs. Eddy's assertion that "the talents He gives we must improve" has often encouraged me to be more spiritually loving (ibid., p. 6).

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