“What the world needs now is love, sweet love / It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.”
Hal David’s classic lyrics capture such a wonderful sentiment. Yet the world seems to have had “too little” of so many things in the past year—money for rent and mortgages, jobs to earn it, health, and opportunities to mingle with friends and loved ones, and even meet that special person who might become a valentine sweetheart. How can we find that needed love when our hearts are instead filled with the prospect, or presence, of intense lack?
Christian Science says of God, “Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 494). In light of this understanding of God as boundless Love—proved consistently true by the master healer, Christ Jesus—every unmet human need is in effect claiming that God is absent.
