My mother and I enjoyed a very close relationship through my growing up years. When she passed away, only three months after I was married, I was devastated. I missed the happy interchange of love I'd experienced in our relationship. At that time, many of the ideas in Science and Health about God as divine Parent—as the Father and Mother of creation—were very helpful to me. An answer to the question "What is man?" for example, includes this statement: "He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas." Science and Health, p. 475.
I asked God to show me more about Him as my Mother.
As I treasured this spiritual view of myself as "...including all right ideas," I realized that all of the aspects of motherhood which I so appreciated in my own mother, were really characteristics of God, who is the eternal Mother. And those characteristics remain with me to this day. Within about six months, I was largely healed of the grief I'd felt.
