Love has no enemies

One of my students shared a terrific experience she had recently which proved the mental nature of encounters with others, in this case, with bees!

She loves bees. She loves nature. She loves.

In her community, a swarm of bees had gathered on a tree in the middle of her town. Because of the swarm's proximity to the public and people walking up and down the street, she wanted to act quickly to remove them before someone sprayed and destroyed the creatures.

Acting on short notice, she had only a bucket and her garden gloves to work with.

Climbing into the tree with a short sleeved shirt and face exposed, she began the process of pulling thousands of buzzing bees into her container.

She was not naïve about the act and prepared her thought ahead of time to be safe. She filled her thought with pure positive love for the bees.

She said that she quietly spoke to them while moving them down, expressing her love and care for their well being and assuring them they were safe and had nothing to fear.

Countless bees lit on her body, on her face, on her arms, moving about, curious and searching for direction and home. But she worked on without fear and concern.

When almost finished, the swarming mass in her bucket realized the queen was not there and they all flew back up into the tree where the queen still sat. And she had to start all over again. But she did without resentment or complaint. She kept on loving the swarming brood until she finished the task, queen and all, and was able to take them home to an empty hive she had waiting for them.

After the task was done, she had 2 mild stings on one arm that were quite harmless to her. The bees were rescued and in a place no one minded.

As she told the story, I saw in her face all the love and care she had for these special creatures. She had no fear of them, and they had no fear of her. They had no reason to attack her because they felt safe in her presence.

And the same rule applies to all people we encounter. Enemies often attack because they see someone or something they fear. But if there is no reason to fear, they lose fear themselves, and see no reason to act in defense.

Love, love, love… It’s the route to peace and harmony amongst all God’s creatures.

Jesus got it right when he taught, "Love your enemies." Why? Because, as he knew, love has no enemies.

The best protection from enemies

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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”

~ African Proverb

Loving your enemies podcast

“How can you love an enemy?"

"How can you love someone who hates you and wants to harm you?”

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Dealing with mean people

I was asked, “When we die, do we have to deal with mean people who passed on before us?”

I replied, “God didn’t create mean people. The troubles mean people give us are not so much from the person we identify as cruel, as from our evil thoughts about them. Get rid of the evil thoughts, and the meanness of that person will not bother you.”

“That is interesting,” she commented. And then went onto explain that a person she considered to be one of the cruelest and meanest individuals she had ever known had recently died. But she was still very troubled by him.

We concluded that it wasn’t the person’s physical presence and actions that had troubled her, but her thoughts about him, and those unforgiving views were still hanging around.

I find three passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, helpful in claiming immunity from other people’s hurtful ways.

• “It is error to suffer for aught but your own sins.” p. 391:13
• “It is self-evident that we are harmonious only as we cease to manifest evil or the belief that we suffer from the sins of others.” p. 346:13
• “The sins of others should not make good men suffer.” p. 189:13

Typically, we are troubled by others because our self-indignation, arrogance, self-righteousness or pride gets offended. The spiritual demand is to purge ourselves of sin, of the “self-stuff” that prevents us from having a consciousness filled with love. Once the “self-stuff” is dispensed with we can successfully love our enemies as Jesus taught, and prevent them from paining our existence.

So, “Do we have to deal with mean people in a later life?” I answer, “In spiritual reality there are no mean people. It’s our view of them that needs to reform. But sooner or later each of us need to behold the correct view of every one of God's children, and there's no better time to get that right spiritual view then now!”