A good friend of mine shared a very interesting and touching experience that really awakened me to realize the importance and power of understanding divine dependency.
This friend's little girl was a so-called "late child," arriving some years after their other children, and a strong mutual dependency had developed between mother and daughter. At the age of three the child was still refusing to be toilet-trained, and had actually stated that she wanted to "stay little"—not grow up.
One evening while watching a rather blunt portrayal of a mother-child dependency on television, my friend was suddenly aroused to the suffocating materialism at the root of such dependency, and she recognized what had happened between herself and her little girl. She knew that this strong human dependency had to be healed. The next day she called a Christian Science practitioner for help in realizing God's—Mind's—direct control of each of His precious individualities. In fact, because she believed she enjoyed the dependency, she realized she needed help in even wanting to be healed.
