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“….Beloved, let us love one another; for love
is of God and he who loves is born of God and knows God”. 1 John 4:7
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Prepared by Marie Ann Shea,
TSM Chaplain
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Think Pink!
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Questions:
What is the difference between the
personal selfish love and Divine Love?
How do we dissociate suffering from love?
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The difference between
personal selfish love and Divine Love
can
be defined by the thoughts we hold
in the center of the mind and heart.
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“Thoughts are formative; they are like seeds
that produce after their own kind”
(How To Let God Help You , Myrtle Fillmore, p74).
Personal selfish love is a
separating love, consciously placed before the Christ Love that dwells within
all of us. In the busy world of today we tend to focus on our present life experience
”a me first attitude” , whether it be good or not so good and hold it possessively
in the center of the mind. We temporarily set aside any thought of placing God first in
our daily experiences or to give thanks to God for the good in our lives. Personal
love is a selfish way of thinking about one's own comfort and how the external world
solely relates to one's own self. The thought of what can be gained through obtaining
material things, in the attitude of gluttony and through the accepting of puffed up
compliments can inflate one's ego, causing a separation from God's Divine Love. Seeking
love for oneself, only to fill one's own needs and not concern for the person who is
giving the love, is another level of personal love. Personal love is a cold and
uncaring feeling or expression, a very “matter of fact” relationship. This “What‘s
in it for me!!" attitude is a self-centered expression of personal selfish love.
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The Law of Divine Love is:
“it is in giving
that we receive"
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The Faculty of Love is related to the “center of the heart” and it is here
where the great Power of Love resides.
The Power of Divine Love brings joy and fulfillment into our life’s
experiences.
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As the heart and mind come together and accept the Divine Law of Love, “to love God
and to love one another” it becomes an expression of the Spiritual Energy of God,
which we call the Christ. We radiate this love in all activites of our lives, just as
John, (the Disciple, Jesus called forth to represent the faculty of love) did when he
beheld the wisdom of the perfect man, Jesus Christ in all His glory. Thus love beholds
the transforming, uplifting power of the Christ. This faculty of love symbolized by
John holds the soul and body together .
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It is God’s Nature that Divine Love, a caring Love,a Love that has the power to transform
personal selfish love into Divine Love brings only good into the life experience. When the
Christ Love is called forth from the Soul through prayer, God’s Divine Love becomes the
center of both the mind and heart. Then the joy of Spiritual understanding of life
experience is celebrated, this is a blessing from God. This is the Power of the Faculty of
Divine Love in action.
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We dissociate suffering and love by using our faculties of love and wisdom,
the power of the love in our hearts and the intelligence of our minds come
together in one thought:
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God is in all situations.
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Thus allowing Spirit to enter into the experience and bring the expression of the forgiving
love of Jesus Christ into a perfect health manifestation of the body. A knowing of the
presence of the Christ Light in our soul comes forth in the mind and enfolds our body
towards the perfection, this Jesus Christ demonstrated in his life.
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