I’ve often heard people say, “If I could only feel more of God’s love…” The statement implies that God’s love is somehow lacking in that person’s experience.
In truth, there is never a lack of God’s love around us. It is omnipresent, always present, to feel, know and experience with awesome, amazing results.
If we’re not feeling God’s love, the more constructive direction to go with the above statement is likely in the direction of “How much are you loving God today? Are you loving God with your whole heart? Your whole mind? Your whole soul?”
God’s love flows to us abundantly. It never lacks or comes up short. To feel it, it could be that we need to work on the other side of the relationship—on our demonstrated love for God.
Thank you very much, Evan, for this uplifting reninder!
… reminder!!
‘Our God is Love’:
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/kwxn2x1qa?s=e
Thank you Angie for this article – its really good!
Angie, your article really helped me today. Evan, your message always inspires and I am so grateful for you!
Great answer!! Thank you!!
We are the reflection of God’s Love, how can we lack it? Can it wax and wane, come and go? No. Materially speaking, our attention or awareness of its constancy can seem to change, but God is unchangeable, immutable perfection.
Evan wisely tells us to turn to God with our whole hearts today, look for things to be grateful for, and love Him more.
Right to the point ,Evan, thank you. God’s love over flows more than we accept says the bible.
Very timely, thank you for these daily inspirations Evan!
Thanks for the message and picture
❣️❤️
The picture made me think of the heart
photo I have on my phone, sixty some.
They started after my husband passed on.
When walking Clipper I always looked
straight ahead one day I was looking
down and saw three hearts etched in
rhe sidewalk in different places.
I have found them in cereal pieces,
snow, tree branches, rocks shaped like
hearts. and more.
They are a love gift.
Now that I’ve written this, I hope I
haven’t shared it before
These ❤️ placed gifts are are a gentle
reminder of love/God being
everywhere. They are in nature
giving us a wink from God.
Thanks again Evan.
Dear M,
I, too, have found love, Love, in nature just at the time I need it most. Sometimes when I seem to be at a low point, I try to express God’s Love
more and I often see this refection in a flower, a dog’s unconditional love
that senses the need, a rainbow, a butterfly. Thank you for sharing your
experience and the love felt within this blog is always so comforting.
Thank you All.
M, thank you. It warmed my heart reading about the hearts (Love) you see everywhere. Your spiritual senses are well tuned. Don’t worry if you’ve shared this before, think of all the repeated negativity we hear in the media and everywhere we turn, nice to have something lovely repeated. Can’t have too much good.
Something to share, at the beginning of the pandemic, on the steps outside the entry to our church, pebbles were laid down in an arrangement on the concrete steps to our church arranged by the donor in a way, perhaps a heart, to show someone cared about us. Where we are located, painted rocks had become popular to be anonymously placed around random/unexpected locations, Neighbors, wanting to express their love for others, were busy creating these tokens to share and to be unassigned to the creator, but just shared a heart felt love anonymously, for one another. Many rocks (this is the desert with an unlimited supply) were beautiful, colorful, painted, or decorated as an expression of this LOVE.
How nice – we’ve been collecting heart rocks for years – mostly on the beach! The tradition began when my dear sister-in-law began collecting them in memory of her daughter, who passed on at a young age. They have come to represent sweet memories of special times spent with friends and relatives.
Evan , Thank you!!❤️❤️❤️❤️And M, thanking you for remarking on Evan’s heart photo and sharing your vision of hearts everywhere!
It seems like I’ve heard comments like “not feeling a lot of God’s love these days” quite a bit lately. What a positive, non challenging response you’ve provided Evan. Thank you ever so much for today’s and every day’s Daily Lift.
You Can Prove that God is Love
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1ggzemkg23u?s=copylink
Thank you Kirsten – excellent article!
“Daddy”
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1r94oyfi5du?s=e
The Journal article on Love provided by Angie is outstanding ! A real keeper.
Thanks, Evan and Angie!
I was thinking the other day how I would much rather experience God rather than just study and learn about God. When I go into our local state prison, I love experiencing first hand the love and innate goodness of these men. Having experienced it, nothing anyone wants to say about the incarcerated can shake my good experiences with them. That is why I want to experience God instead of just learning about Him.
“Love is reflected in love” “Love your neighbors as yourself.” “Love God with all your heart and soul and mind.” Such great advice Evan to give Love and you will receive it. Thanks, M for your lovely heart story and thanks for all the great articles on this subject. Love to everyone.
The Daddy article brought this poem to thought.
Sorry to submit twice.
OUR DADDY WHICH ART IN HEAVEN
The little boy whose mother passed on
started to sleep with his father.
All night he would say,
“Are you facing me Daddy?”
Children also ask their parents
“Are we there yet?”
We ask the same childlike questions,
wanting to know if we are there yet,
there, being the end of the troubling period.
We want, Him, to hold and us, eradicate all troubling
thoughts, past experiences, doubts.
“Are you facing me, Daddy?”
We need to hear His affirmative answer.
The Daddy part of, “Our Father,” brings
comfort, security and safety, satisfying
our thoughts of being nearer Him, positioning
consciousness, gaining our understanding.
In the throws of unawareness,
we need to go to the Daddy part of God,
staying there until the storm has passed,
then like any child, we can say,
“Thank you Father,” and go in peace.
Melissa Baker
Today’s Wonderful Sharing is truly love reflecting Love❤️
Every lovely response shows the LIMITLESS ways LOVE is seen and felt ~~ from rocks to inmates to neighbors showing care, to compassionate “tending”, even a phone call to someone who may feel alone, singing, dancing, seeing Love in nature…. Unlimited expressions of Infinite Love.
Many times I’ve reached out & prayerfully cried with my longing heart that my Mommy~Daddy hear me & let me know I am loved. Thinking of God as my Mommy~Daddy comforts me.
My doggie this second came over & climbed up on my lap to give & get love ❤️
Sometimes the topic presented by Evan causes me to do more study of that topic and today was one of those days. I was led to look up on YouTube lectures by Myrtle Smyth and selected a lecture entitled “The Greatest of these is Love”. It’s worth listening to when you have an hour to do so. There is a question session at the end that is really good too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQmd8P-gBw
This lecture reinforced to me that the difference between praying and realizing healing and praying and not realizing healing often comes down to “conviction”. Do we REALLY accept the ideas we are using in prayer as the truth or are we just using those ideas kind of like “spiritual medicine” that we recite superstitiously in hopes of changing something real that is bad into something good. When the whole time we should be seeing what appears to be bad as “unreal” because a God that is Love would have never cause anything bad.
I love this statement:
Let neither fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious — as Life eternally is — can destroy any painful sense of, or belief in, that which Life is not. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 495:16–20)
One day a few years ago it occurred to me that the phrase “the recognition of life harmonious” was a beautiful way to describe a Christian Science prayerful treatment. I realized this was telling me to not let fear or doubt prevent me from realizing a Christian Science treatment IS effective. Mrs. Eddy discovered a unique way of praying as part of her discovery of Christian Science and she lovingly shared that with all of us so we could benefit from it too. But then a few years later I noticed the “as Life eternally is” phrase. Ah Ha! Isn’t she telling us by that phrase that praying isn’t a process of changing something bad into something good? Instead, isn’t praying the process of realizing nothing has ever been outside the control of Divine Principle, Love? And that we’re not praying to change something “bad” into something “good” but we pray to understand everything has always been good and eternally will be good because God saw everything that he made and it was good. Everything reflects God, good, so everything is perpetually in a state of goodness and we can realize that by “the recognition of life (effect) harmonious – as Life (cause) eternally is”.
Thank you Evan for your blog today and everyday, thank you to everyone that commented, and thank you to everyone that reads and doesn’t comment! 🙂
Thank you RH!
What a wonderful lecture! I especially loved the dog story. It just shows how all things work together who love God includes all of God’s creation – animals included. Thank you for sharing it RH.
WOW! Thank you, Evan and all who shared comments and articles. What a blessing is Spirit View and today’s post!
Thank you, Evan and all those who posted such inspiring comments. Thank you for all the articles too. I haven’t had time to read them yet, but I know they will be very supportive of the message to feel God’s Love. We receive when we give – especially giving Love to God, our Leader and all mankind (our neighbors).
Blessings to all.
I was thinking today how to love God who is invisible to our human eyes? How do I feel this love so it’s meaningful and genuine? One way which made sense is asking how I love the synonyms? Do I love Mind? Oh yes – Mind is a great companion and trustworthy for direction and inspiration and humor even. How do I love Love? Love is so comforting, pure and fun to reflect to others. What is it about Spirit to love? Spirit’s laws undergird our universe to make it the kingdom of heaven where good is infinite to prove and leavens our human lives giving us hope to have dominion over matter. What is lovable about Principle? It’s steady, justice, fair, reliable and governs without partiality but universally. And the divine Principle is Love so everything is infused with Love. Love is the substance of our universe. What about Soul? Soul means we are never separate from God with a separate soul but we’re dwelling in God who is our Soul. We are the divine Us. Truth is lovable because it enunciates the divine reality separate from cold materialism. Life is lovable because it includes infinity, adventure, eternality and offers spiritual purpose. Father-Mother is easy to love because it means God cares for us and protects us and wants the best for us. The synonyms for God seem like a prism to help us better understand and love God.
I find that when I feel as though I need to feel God’s love, I go out and find someone that needs love.
Science and Health p 17:7 …”Love is reflected in love.”