Article August 17, 2015 Issue

The vast reach of Love

Samuela Orth-Moore

How big are the “everlasting arms of Love”? The idea of being upheld and embraced by God’s love isn’t new; it comes from the book of Deuteronomy, “The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms” (33:27). A well-known hymn elaborates on this timeless idea:

Everlasting arms of Love
Are beneath, around, above;
God it is who bears us on,
His the arm we lean upon.
(John R. Macduff, Christian Science Hymnal, No. 53, adapt. © CSBD)