One test of the progress we have made in our understanding of God's omnipresence through the study of Christian Science comes at the moment when our children are ready to leave the shelter of the family home, either literally or in the sense that it is time for them to make their own decisions.
Throughout the years when our young people have been in our care, we have done our best to prepare and equip them for this adventure. If we are students of Christian Science, we already know that the best possible equipment we can offer them is reliance on God's allness and omnipresence.
What of the parents? Do we take equal care to prepare ourselves to loose the young explorers and let them go with a joyous confidence based on our own proved trust in God's omnipresence? Sometimes this moment in family life may seem a hard one for the parents. The temptation may present itself to be fearful that their children will be lured from the safe path into byways that are undesirable and dangerous. Or the subtle suggestion may whisper that certain weaknesses of character, still needing correction, may lead to trouble when there is no watchful parent standing by.
