Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to header Skip to footer

Articles

Security? In Mother's arms

From the February 1987 issue of The Christian Science Journal


One day when my son Jason was quite small, he handed me a poem he had just written. Scrawled out and misspelled, it read:

I get a cuddle in the morning
I get a cuddle at night
It puts me in a sandwich
Just right!

Aside from thinking that this was a terrific poem for one so small, I immediately saw that he was expressing a sense of security drawn from my practice of cuddling him for a few moments at the beginning and end of each day.

Sign up for unlimited access

You've accessed 1 piece of free Journal content

Subscribe

Subscription aid available

 Try free

No card required

More In This Issue / February 1987

concord-web-promo-graphic

Explore Concord—see where it takes you.

Search the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures