What does it mean to love enough? Love that is "enough" surely must be more than human emotion. Emotional "love" tends to be self-centered and changeable. It is a limited sense of love that generally requires a certain person or a pleasing set of circumstances—externals—to stir it up and draw it out. It is a fragile kind of love, hardly enough to bring about healing solutions. In a message to church members Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, speaks of "a false sense of love that, like the summer brook, soon gets dry." Message to The Mother Church for 1902, p. 18.
Love that is enough is unselfish. It is God-imparted, spiritual love, which is without limits: ever present, unending, impartial, unconditional. While the thought of God-imparted love may give one a picture of a "God out there" sending love to "us right here," actually it is always here, a quality revealed within consciousness. It is inherent in the nature of all of God's offspring, forever present in every individuality. When it seems hidden, or even lost, this love still characterizes our genuine, eternal nature as God's spiritual offspring. And because it's a quality of our true being, we have the capacity to discover it, to recognize it, feel it, express it. One of the hymns in the Christian Science Hymnal says, referring to God, 'All Thy love we have for loving." Hymn No. 85. It is possible for us to love with an unselfed love, because it is divine Love, God Himself, who impels and empowers us to do so.
The Bible tells us that God is Love. Surely Christ Jesus was fully conscious of this. Jesus' teaching, his preaching, his living, were based on an understanding of Love as the very Principle of being. His healing works, his compassion, his unselfish motives, declared a love so grand, pure, and all-embracing that others were naturally drawn to it.
