All you need is love ...

Consider this verse:

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known
Nothing you can see that isn’t shown
Nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be. 
It’s easy.
All you need is love ...

The thought in this verse reminds me that Love is God, and that’s why all good is already provided and will ever be available to all. This is what makes loving easy and natural. Some people with relationship wrinkles might disagree. To them, love may not seem so easy. Some may even say that love hurts.

 “Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need” Every need? When I first read this, I thought, How can she say that when there’s so much evidence of human need all around, especially the need for love?

For Jesus, loving was easy. The Master said our Father met his every need, that he did nothing of himself – that it was always the Father working through him (see John 5:19). This conscious recognition of his oneness with God, divine Love, is what made loving easy for him. Jesus wouldn’t have seen himself as lacking love. 

Not one of us can lack love, either. But if we think of love as simply a variable human emotion, we may think we do lack love, and may suffer as if we are needy. But true love, which comes from God, is never limited. When we think it is limited, we limit loving, and that’s when love can seem to hurt. But we cannot suffer from lack of love when we recognize divine Love as the ever-present source of our very being and when we allow divine affection to be expressed through each of us humanly.

What if we do let love pour through, but affection is not returned? We can surely take heart. Love is never wasted. Mrs. Eddy wrote: “Human affection is not poured forth vainly, even though it meet no return. Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it” (p. 57).   

How do we recognize divine Love? Love appears as tangible evidence of the ever-present divine influence, appropriately expressed humanly. It is contentment meant to be. It is joy, welling up from within and urging heartfelt happiness. It will burst out as song. You will know it as it has always been known. You will see it as it has always been shown. You will love it as you have always been loved.

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