The need for Christian Science nursing care in any situation is really a call for love. In providing such loving care to others, I've derived special inspiration from this poem Mary Baker Eddy once wrote for young people called "A Verse: To the Big Children":
Father–Mother good, lovingly
Thee I seek,—
Patient, meek,
In the way Thou hast,—
Be it slow or fast,
Up to Thee.Poems, p.69 .
"Father–Mother" expresses the unbroken, loving relation of God to man. Nursing another is a reflection of God's tender fatherhood and motherhood.
