IN HER POEM "MOTHER'S EVENING PRAYER," Mary Baker Eddy described God as Love, guarding "the nestling's faltering flight" (Poems, p. 4). To me, this promise of loving protection is completely natural.
One of my favorite expressions of this innate protective quality, which comes from God, is in the way a cow moose cares for her calves. Every spring as our Alaskan days grow longer, we see this loving relationship played out in our city neighborhoods and boreal forests as moose cows navigate the threats of busy streets and urban bears, while their tiny offspring move about on unstable legs.
Think of the unceasing watchfulness and love a mother moose has for her calves as they grow and mature in their life experience. It's the same boundless Love that we ourselves experience every moment as children of the one tender, caring, Father-Mother God of us all.
