My wife and I wanted a baby very much. Then one day it occurred to me that I had never really prayed about this. One of the most meaningful events in human life certainly warranted prayer! All it took to get me down to work, and to bring to my thought the necessary spiritual perspective, was the realization of this need for prayer.
Whether one is expecting a child, already has children, or is hoping to have a child, turning to prayer to understand more of God, divine Life, and more of God's creation, has a transforming effect. A desire to see a shift in our consciousness from a material sense of creation to the spiritual sense gives us the highest motivation for our prayers. Such motivation ensures that we are not asking God for more understanding of divine Life just so that we can have a baby!
Those joyous words "we're expecting" take on new meaning as we consider just what we are expecting. For example, are we expecting to add something to what God has created? In summing up God's creation, the book of Genesis in the Bible tells us, "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them." Gen. 2:1. In giving the spiritual interpretation of this verse according to Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy writes, "Thus the ideas of God in universal being are complete and forever expressed, for Science reveals infinity and the fatherhood and motherhood of Love." Science and Health, p. 519. God has already created all. This finished, complete creation surely cannot be added to. Is there an idea somewhere that the Father does not already know, love, and sustain? Can man intervene and become the source of an idea not already held in the embrace of divine Love? We can be expectant, then, of a fuller sense of God's work as finished and intact. We can expect a better understanding that each of God's ideas is complete already, and to be seeing more evidence around us right now of what God, divine Life, has already created.
