When I was nineteen, I lost my mother. Christian Science quickly healed me of grief because it gave me a diviner sense of motherhood. It comforted me with an understanding of the eternality of my mother's true, spiritual identity and the indestructibility of the divine qualities she had expressed— goodness, love, understanding. Where but in God could such qualities originate? By whom but God can they be eternally maintained?
Christian Science can help both mothers and children feel the blessedness of divine Love's mothering, which never stops caring for its offspring. The realization that man's real creator is divine Love and that man is the ideal offspring of Love contributes to a mother's peace of mind and to her child's well-being as no human concept of motherhood can.
If a mother is alarmed about a child's behavior, safety, or health, she can replace this feeling with the healing recognition of divine Love's presence and its perpetual control of its creation. Her understanding and affirmation that divine Love is omnipresent will help to sustain and direct the child, reveal strengths as well as expose and eliminate weaknesses, and help her wait for the development of the child's God-derived individuality without willfully trying to force it into one channel or another.
