Probably most Christian Science practitioners would agree that a majority of the problems brought to them by patients have to do with a finite, human sense of relationship. If the problem is not due to the mistake of someone's assuming a false sense of obligation and responsibility for the welfare, maintenance, and happiness of others, it is likely to be due to the dissatisfaction and discontent of others who resent such assumption of responsibility and regard it as domination or meddlesomeness. In one way or another the resulting friction, contention, strife, and unhappiness revolve about an erroneous sense of responsibility or dependence.
These regrettable conditions extend beyond the family group into the business, the church—into every kind of human relationship. So we are constantly in need of being reminded that, in the right sense of relationship—that of Principle to its ideas and of those ideas to their Principle—one individual cannot possibly interfere with another, injure another, take the place of another, deprive another of anything, or depend upon another for anything. All are dependent on the one Father-Mother God for everything, and that heavenly Father-Mother is responsible for His children and for their welfare. This divine Parent is willing and able to provide abundantly for all His children, and is doing so eternally. The truth about relationship is operative as law in all our human contacts, and is capable of adjusting everything that pertains to them in the way that is best for all concerned.
In families and in larger groups of persons there is the belief of interdependence. This belief, however, is entirely human and has no basis in divine reality. In the universe of Mind, Spirit, each and every idea is individual and, in that sense, independent. No idea is dependent on another idea for existence or continuity. All ideas depend on Mind, their creator, for existence, continuity, guidance, sustenance, supply, activity, usefulness, happiness, satisfaction. Each idea is individually complete, individually "perfect and entire, wanting nothing."
