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Monday, January 6, 2020

Imagine a Love that Wants You to Be Completely Free

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What were you taught about God's love? And what do you believe now?  These are some of the questions I was asked in my early spiritual education in  Science of Mind.  

It was tricky answering the questions because I had to put aside everything I knew about human love.  Human love is not always a useful model for exploring what Divine Love is.  

Our human love is, well, interesting.  We tend to have conditions on our love.  We can undoubtedly feel justified not loving the people we don't like, and people we once loved me may feel distant from.  In other words, it's changeable.

To understand what absolute love means, I had to go beyond the human model.  It may be challenging to get there, yet it is essential to understanding how the Science of Mind works.

To see this week's video about Absolute Love on YouTube, click here.

Someone once said to Dr. Raymond Charles Barker, a well-known Science of Mind teacher, that “… as I listen to your lecture, I do not have a sense of the Presence of God, because you are always telling us the mechanics of the Law of Mind.” Dr. Barker reflected that it was possible that, by focusing on practical spirituality, he may have forgotten about the Thing which makes it all work. 

After that conversation, Dr. Barker wrote, “There is an impelling force for good. It is God. It is in all, through all, and equally distributed in every person. Its main characteristics are intelligence and love.” 
This month we are focusing on clearly seeing the Love that is the Divine and tuning into its inspiration and warmth. There is an overshadowing Presence that is always with us; it is the loving, creative action of Life. We are still in It and It is always in us.


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