Calling out to God in times of great need is almost instinctive in human beings. Turning to God is natural, for in truth each one of us really is the child of God. The Bible tells us, "Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." Rom. 8:15.
When a child is having a nightmare, he will often call out audibly, "Mother, Mother," and that calling either brings his mother at once to his side or it wakes him up. We too can wake from the nightmare dream of mortal existence by calling out to our Father-Mother God in prayerful, earnest desire, "Father Mother God, wake me up. Open my eyes to the heavenly presence of Your allness and goodness."
When one is having a dream, he usually doesn't realize he's asleep. Similarly, human beings asleep in the belief that life is in matter, usually don't recognize the illusory nature of that dream or false belief. Often the beauty of the dream or the apparent promise of the dream fools us into thinking that life in matter is the real and that it has something good to offer us. But the beauty and the promise of the dream are at most only the material senses' attempt to catch hold of spiritual reality. Because a dream state is a suppositional opposite of life in God, Spirit, the dream itself has nothing of permanence to offer us. Mrs. Eddy speaks of the awakening from the material illusion when she writes in Science and Health: "The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love. Then we begin to learn Life in divine Science." Science and Health, p. 322.
