WHEN I was a child, I heard a speaker say, "When your heart is filled with love you will not be critical or irritable, but you will be divinely irresistible." This thought made such an impression upon me that I have never forgotten it. It has repeated itself many, many times in my mind and kept me from being critical and unhappy about inharmonious conditions.
"When your heart is filled with love you will not be critical or irritable, but you will be divinely irresistible." To what do we wish to become irresistible? To the real, the true, the good things of life, do we not? By our ugly, cross, irritable, impatient thoughts we build up a wall of resistance to the good that we so much desire, and then we wonder why we are not happy, why we are not healthy, why we are not prosperous, why we are not making good in our positions. When we are in a state of irritability good cannot possibly be expressed in our lives. We have failed to let love express itself, and without love there can be no happiness.
There is the person who thinks that the world has treated him very badly, that no one understands him, that no one likes him, and that everyone is against him. You have heard persons say this. You have heard someone say that a particular person was trying to keep his good from him. Only one's lack of insight, his lack of love and understanding can make him think this for even a moment. The only thing that works against anyone is his failure to express the love of God. When one cultivates the love of God and is willing to let it express itself through him, he finds his life easily and quickly freed from the confusion caused by the belief that someone else wishes to harm him, to keep his good from him.
Love is an inherent power that, if allowed to be expressed in one's life, will transform every inharmony, will heal every disease, will transmute every negative condition into part of the harmonious whole. The results of love are always good. But do not confuse sentiment and sympathy with love. I am speaking of the purified, transcendent power of divine love that expresses itself through you and me when we open our hearts and minds to it, when we recognize and encourage it.
If you feel a lack of satisfaction and harmony in your life, if your life seems hard and the way seems dark, it is likely that you are inhibiting love. The first step in remedying such conditions is to forget about your personal self and to cultivate the irresistible power of divine love in your life by giving something of yourself in a helpful way to someone else. In other words, cultivate the feeling of love and be in expression that which you would bring into your life.
More often than we realize, the lack of love in our lives is simply the lack of expressed love. One may feel ever so kindly toward other persons but close himself in by not venturing to express any of his good feeling. The desire for love is frequently the need to express love toward others.
Let love express itself through you toward others by silently blessing them, praying that the peace and goodness of God be poured out upon them.
If one wishes to clear up a misunderstanding, it is not necessary to speak openly, unless one is led to do so. God's harmony and perfect peace can be established by silently blessing the person or the situation that needs our love.
The love of God can do wonderful things for us; it will imbue our lives if we permit it to do so. It makes smooth the path that was thorny and hard. It changes our discontent into harmony and happiness. It dissolves tension and sends its healing currents through our body temple. It satisfies our needs and is the irresistible magnet that brings the substance of God into manifestation in our lives as our visible daily supply.
"When your heart is filled with love you will not be critical or irritable, but you will be divinely irresistible." Let us make this thought into an affirmation for ourselves, so that it can be a more positive help in our lives. "My heart is filled with love, and I am not critical, irritable, or impatient. I am divinely irresistible." We may feel a hesitancy in claiming to be divinely irresistible, because we associate the idea with personal attractiveness. But, after all, true personal attractiveness is dependent on something deeper than mere externalities. Unless there is depth of character and spirituality, there is no strength or drawing power in mere personal attractiveness. But when love fills the heart it is reflected not only in the face but in the very life of the person; the beautiful becomes more beautiful, and the one who lacks beauty and regularity of features is so lighted up by the radiance of the inner glow of love that he, too, becomes divinely irresistible.
To affirm, "I am the love of God in expression," is helpful, too; for it is a starting point, and you will gradually and easily begin to transcend your human limitations. You will be surprised to find how easy it is to get the feeling of love. Love is an innate quality in man, and it needs only to be called forth in order to express all its radiance.
Sometimes we make hard work of trying to express love. We say to ourselves, "I just do not feel loving, and there isn't much I can do about it."
There may not be much you can do personally about it, except to be receptive to the feeling of love. God is the source of all love, not you. Therefore, if you just open your heart with the thought that you are going to let God's love flow through you, it will commence to flow. It will flow through your body temple to cleanse, purify, and heal you. It will flow through your feeling nature to quicken a loving feeling and then commence its flow out into all your relationships with others.
As children of God we must be expressers of His love. If we are not attracting the good that we desire in our lives, let us begin to think of ourselves as radiating centers of love. We shall find that love, the divine magnet within us, will change our world.
Love is the power that is behind the Silent Unity work. We love the persons who write to us for help; we see beyond their needs or failures and behold the perfect, wonderful self in each one. We behold the perfection of all who turn to us, and in the name of the irresistible love of the Christ we call it forth in mind, body, and affairs.
(by May Rowland)
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