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It is a wonderful thing this Love that
wraps us around. It gives us such a sense of peace. "Thou wilt keep him in
perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee" (Isa 26:3). With that sense of
perfect peace the heart has a chance to strengthen itself and recuperate. We do
not have to suffer any more from a weak heart, or an irregular heart, or a
fearful heart, or an anxious heart, but instead we become strong hearted,
fearless, confident, resilient. The heart is shockproof, because the heart is
not just an organ; it is the divine Principle, Love.
The great Principle of being is Love, our
divine Principle is Love. It is Principle because it is power, because it is
rhythmic, because it is strong,, because it is reliable, and you cannot
possibly overstress it. It is Love because it is tender and compassionate.
We saw a lovely instance recently of a
dear friend of ours who in his eighties had a heart attack. Within twenty-four
hours he had a healing; he was restored to normal strength and activity when we
saw together that the heart of man's being is the divine Principle, Love. We
are anxious and we fear only because we believe we have separate being from
God. But we do not have separate being; God is our being. His Being is our
being. Because He lives, I live. The sun and the sunshine are one. There is no
shine without the sun, and the sun is not expressed without the shine. So it is
with God and man, they are absolutely one.
So what is the spiritual law behind this?
Christian Science teaches that the seventh great term for God is Love. Love is
ever-present, Love is divine Mother, Love is that which gives comfort, Love is
peace, Love is assurance, Love is perfection, holding us all at the point of
perfection. In Love there is no contest, no collision, no hatred, no fear. In
Love's universal plan we all have our place like children in one great family.
In Love there is design and meaning in the universe. Love has a purpose for the
human race, which is to bring us through to the resolution of our problems.
Fundamentally there is only one problem that faces us: our apparent separation
from God and therefore from each other. Only in this resolution lies the
salvation of the race.
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