When young birds come of age they normally find their wings and leave the nest for good. The parents and fledglings are then free. This is not always the case with the human family—especially today. Even when parents and grown children live apart, they can sometimes find themselves entangled by states of thought that work against harmony and independent spheres of activity.
A parent, through a sense of false responsibility or perhaps a feeling of incompleteness, may be unwilling to loose a child mentally and let him have his own individual experience. Or the young person may cling emotionally to familiar, comforting support. Whatever the particular circumstances surrounding a relationship that needs liberating, the fears underlying inharmony can be eliminated through prayer and the acceptance of spiritual truths.
We—as parents and children—can't begin too soon to gain a recognition that each of us belongs to God and is His child. Because of all that Christian Science brings to light about man's wonderful relationship to God, we can learn to know ourselves spiritually, scientifically—not as a conglomeration of material beliefs and limitations but as the spiritual expression of divine Mind, manifesting freedom, grace, beauty, and dominion. When we learn to rely more consistently on divine Mind, God, for happiness and well-being, we begin to find release from the incorrect views of ourselves and others that seem to hold us in emotional or mental bondage.
