When a child leaves home—for school, work, marriage, or military service—many parents feel a sense of sadness, self-pity, or anxiety. But because of the all-powerful truths of God and man that Christian Science reveals, troubled emotions can be healed.
If a time of separation is one of prolonged unhappiness for some parents, they can find an answer through prayer and close study of the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy's writings, particularly the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health. In striving for a fuller understanding of God as ever-present Love and of man's spiritual relationship to Him, the parent will find in divine Truth the comfort, the peace, and the healing he needs.
As God's idea, or image, man possesses spiritual kinship with God, his Father-Mother. He is at one with the Christ, the true idea of sonship. Because the real, perfect, spiritual man reflects God's unlimited qualities—that is, love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, beauty, intelligence, and many others—the parent never needs to feel separated from these ever-present Christly qualities. They are inherent within his consciousness; they constitute his true being.
