Text of the meditation
Human loves are reflections of the Divine Love. People, clinging to self and to the comfortless shadows of evil, are in the habit of thinking of Divine Love as something belonging to a God who is out of reach; as something outside themselves, and that must forever remain outside.
Truly, the Love of God is ever beyond the reach of self, but when the heart and mind are emptied of self, then the selfless Love, the supreme Love, the Love that is of God, or Good, becomes an inward and abiding reality. And this inward realisation of holy Love is none other than the Love of Christ, which is so much talked about and so little comprehended; the Love that not only saves the soul from sin, but lifts it also above the power of temptation.
Divine Love knows neither sorrow nor change.
James Allen (1864–1912), Book of Meditations for Every Day in the Year (1913) – public-domain text, gently modernised.
The original 1913 text is in the public domain.
