If you’ve ever been tempted to feel tired from caring for another person, it might be time to lift your concept of love to a higher level.
True love is not a human emotion that gets spent. Real love is a divine power that is forever strong and endures.
Love is God (I John 4:8), the Bible tells us. God never runs out of strength. God never loses enthusiasm or interest in the act of loving. God doesn’t get tired of expressing more love.
God is infinite Love, eternal comfort, ever-faithful compassion, and everlasting joy. When God is the Love being expressed, there is buoyancy, delight, positive outlook and ever-growing inspiration.
Love does not deplete in the act of loving. It does not give up a portion of itself in order to help another. Like a piece of music being played for the delight of an audience, the musician who plays the music does not lose a portion of himself in the act of performing the music. Likely, he grows, is inspired while playing his music, and becomes a better musician. He does not lose something good within himself in order to give something good to another. Both he and his listener gains.
Love is that way. Love is not a limited amount of human energy that gets used up, only good for a few hours, or fearing what it must do next to keep another happy. Love is a God-consciousness. It is spiritual mindedness. It is God in action through us.
As Christian Science explains, man, as a child of God, reflects divine Love. As a reflection in a mirror never grows tired of reflecting the original posed in front of the mirror, man, the reflection of infinite Love, never grows tired in reflecting Love.
Enjoy being a tireless reflection of divine Love today.
“Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal comfort and a wonderful hope, comfort you and strengthen you in every good thing you do and say”
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17, NLT.
Enjoy being a tireless reflection of divine Love today.
And everyday!
This is so beautiful and so helpful, I shall put it to good use right away!
Thank you yet again, Evan.
Thank you, Evan. Just what my wife and I need as a reminder. Love is spiritual strength.
Thank you, Evan!! I especially love the musician analogy.
A riddle:
You give it away to have it. When you give it away, you get more of it. Your eye hasn’t seen it and your ear hasn’t heard it, but you’ve never left home without it. You can’t plan it on a calendar or save it in an account, but it’s there the instant you look for it. It’s within you when you think you’re without it. If you want to discover it, look right where it isn’t. What is it?
God, LOVE.
Your messages are not only profound but the timing is often uncanny to meet my specific needs! So many thanks❤️
Wonderful message. Thank you
Perfect timing!
Yes, in Caregiving for Others, it’s important to Love Ourselves First and not to let ourselves get into the “Self-Sacrificing” acts that can come from ego and deplete our own energy. Sometimes just knowing that Everyone has their own Higher Power helps us to Let Go and Let God, even as we do our part in practical help. I think it’s called, “Detaching with Love.”!!
Thank you Evan, and Thanks to all for your comments.
In being a constant care-giver for a loved one, this is
a reminder that our ongoing love and stamina is strengthened by God, Spirit, Love.
“Let us feel the divine energy of Spirit, bringing us into newness of life….”
(from a sentence in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
p 249)
and from the Bible , II Samuel 22: verse 33.
“GOD IS MY STRENGTH AND POWER AND HE MAKES MY WAY PERFECT.”
Lovely!!
Oh what a great lesson about real Love today, thank you, dear Evan for it!
My desire to help our Christin Science friends lead me to become a CS nurse.
But meanwhile after I retired from professionally CS nursIng I am more aware that not just human love, but rather expressing divine Love and compassion is really comforting and healing our neighbor
and is needed.
Very true and helpful in today’s SpiritView I find the passage: ,,As a reflection in a mirror never grows tired of reflecting the original posed infront of the mirror, man, the reflection of infinite Love, never grows tired in reflectIng Love.” Evan you state so many qualities of God which all are expressed by man, God’s loved child. Am so grateful for this wonderful and important metaphysical lesson on LOVE!
Very comforting message, dear Evan, tied in so beautifully with the theme of this year’s Annual Meeting. Thank you for the inspiration.
Thank you so much Evan !!!!
Thank you Evan, this is Great. I have a day filled with caring for another and it will be joyful and full of God’s activities. This is just what I needed to remind me that God’s Love is reflected not used up. I will ” Walk with Love today”. Thank you all for your inspiring comments as well, whatever blesses one blesses all.
Thank you Evan, something to always remember. I will keep it and read it again and again.
I have taken care of both my parents before they passed. I also deal with older people everyday and troubled young people. When I am exhausted it is because I think I am an doing the loving, not God. With God, there is all the time in the world to express love.
Amazing..loved this beautiful thought.. the more love we give, the more we grow in grace. The more we help others, the more we grow from strength to strength. Everything gained and nothing lost. So wonderfully kind you are Evan for giving us these lovely ideas day after day…God bless always. Deeply grateful.
Nadine, thanks for your added note to this most “lovefull” set of right thoughts: “when you are exhausted it is when you think you are doing the loving”. So true. God is surely the source of patient loving! Thank you Evan too.