PARENTS the world over pray for their children; some pray to idols, some to spirits, some to a corporeal god, and others to the one God, infinite Spirit. Parents who are studying Christian Science pray to God as the one divine Mind. Then they pray to realize that man is idea, an image in Mind, and not a mortal, as he seems to be. In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 465), "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love." From this basis, the parents learn that since God is infinite Mind, there is nothing outside His infinitude, nothing but God and His idea, His perfect creation. Thus in praying for a child, parents can do so with justified confidence in its well-being and safety, for they see it in relation to God, as a perfect and eternal individual being, dwelling in divine Mind. Parents learn in Christian Science that the real Father and Mother of children is God.
After referring to the Biblical account of the creation of woman from the rib of man, and to the later change whereby man is born of woman, Mrs. Eddy writes (ibid., p. 529), "Another change will come as to the nature and origin of man, and this revelation will destroy the dream of existence, reinstate reality, usher in Science and the glorious fact of creation, that both man and woman proceed from God and are His eternal children, belonging to no lesser parent."
Recently the writer saw the picture of a small dory with the name "Mom's Worry" painted on the side. While she appreciated the humor of it from a young person's or from a father's standpoint, it conjured up the scene of a worried mother anxiously awaiting the return of her family from a boating or fishing trip. This only served to remind her of the debt of gratitude she owed to God for Christian Science, which had prevented her from constantly entertaining a sense of anxiety for her family.
