"GOD is our Father and our Mother, our Minister and the great Physician," declares Mrs. Eddy in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 151). She adds: "He is man's only real relative on earth and in heaven. David sang, 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.'" David depended upon God for care and protection. Judging from his attitude toward Deity, David obviously recognized God's nature as Father-Mother.
Our basic relationship is to God. All other apparent relationships one to another are essential, but they are subordinate to our fundamental status of sonship with God. Because man exists as God's expression or reflection, man is complete, for God is complete. Each idea reflects God according to the nature of its God-given needs and purpose. All ideas dwell together in eternal oneness, or unity, in God. But no idea, although each is vitally important to all other ideas, has any power in or of itself to create or determine the purpose or actions of any other idea. The sole creative and governing authority is God. He gives life and eternal activity to all ideas, and He is in sole control of their identity.
The Bible declares that God gave man dominion over all the earth. But this dominion does not involve domination of one idea over another. It involves the enjoyment of the love, the wisdom, the harmony, and the perfection of God, which each idea reflects and which all other ideas reflect.
