The law of Love heals

God has unconditional love for His children—with no exceptions.

By Gay Bryant

One day while on holiday, my teenage son went out with his father, clambering around on some rough granite rocks—my son, foolishly, in his bare feet. They came upon a young woman who had accidentally dropped her camera down a crevice. Wanting to be of help, my son leapt across a chasm, slipped on the jagged rock, and nearly sliced off the top of his big toe.

I had been sitting on the beach some way away, spending some quiet time praying and reading. So when family arrived back, I was prepared to help. My son, usually a very brave and stalwart character, was in great distress, and my husband voiced his concern as to whether he should be taken to a hospital for attention. (This would not have been easy, as we were on a remote offshore island.)

My son had always relied on our prayers to God for his health care since a baby, and he wanted me to pray for him this time, too. I knew that my prayers had to be quick and effective, and that I needed to be sensitive to my husband's concerns, as he was not practicing Christian Science.

I recalled these passages from Mary Baker Eddy's book on spirituality and healing: "Let us reassure ourselves with the law of Love" and "Whatever it is your duty to do, you can do without harm to yourself" (Science and Health, pp. 384 and 385).

I was able to tell my son that trying to help the woman (who got her camera back) was a loving and unselfish act and as such was supported by the law of Love, God, operating on everyone's behalf all the time. It is a law of God that we cannot suffer for doing good and for acts of kindness. Therefore, suffering for helping retrive the camera was unnecessary and unacceptable, and in fact my son could expect freedom and healing. He was God's child, under God's law.

God has unconditional love for His children—with no exceptions. This love is undeviating, unfailing, and unvarying. This love is not intermittent and haphazard; it is dependable under every circumstance, something to be leaned upon.

I gently bathed and bandaged his foot, all the time silently affirming this spiritual truth of God's law of Love, and rejecting the thought that anyone could suffer for a kind act.

Within a couple of hours, my son was able to put his shoes back on, and later in the day, he was playing football, quite unconscious of which toe had been injured. The only further attention it got was the next day when I cleaned it up. It was knitting together very nicely then.

I had certainly been reassured with the law of Love, and so had my son. I think it is so special that this law is blessing all people, whether they know it or not, Never a day goes by when Love's reassurance is not more and more dear and more precious to me.

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