Divinely and humanly, love implies discernment: a profound recognition of the dear worth, the satisfying goodness and loveliness, the very indispensability of its object, and a steadfast desire to cherish it. And love implies infinitely more.
In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes: "Love never loses sight of loveliness. Its halo rests upon its object." Science and Health, p. 248; Such recognition by our heavenly Father, ever-present creative Love, must be without beginning as without end, universal yet individual. What a vital radiance to feel enfolding and identifying oneself and one's neighbor! And all ours to individualize, to reflect and express through Christ's love!
Mrs. Eddy says also, "To love one's neighbor as one's self, is a divine idea; but this idea can never be seen, felt, nor understood through the physical senses."p. 88; Here is a clue to loving. The conscientious, unreserved departure from a finite, physical sense of being, along with the childlike, blissful yielding to spiritual sense as taught in Christian Science, is basic in gaining genuine love for God, for one's own true selfhood and for one's neighbor. This divine idea, love in its scientific rightness, is not won lightly, as we soon learn. But the joy of the struggle is in the simple, logical order and certainty of attainment. Just seeing its imperative necessity in our lives brings assurance that we must increasingly feel its blessed effect and understand its presence.
