In this JSH-Online.com audio podcast, adapted for print, Christian Science practitioner and teacher Sarah Hyatt spoke with Audio Producer Rita Polatin.
Parents want the best for their children—a good education, proper care, love, happiness—but, as you know, being a parent, oftentimes along the way problems come up that we don’t always know the answer to. So, as a Christian Scientist, how have you approached the role of parent?
Well, it’s been a very metaphysical, prayerful approach from the beginning—a desire to know that God is the divine Parent of us all. When Christ Jesus was asked by one of his disciples to teach them how to pray, he began with that lovely sense of God being our Father (see Luke 11:1–4). And Mary Baker Eddy, through her deep research in the Bible, came to understand that Love was one of the names that really conveyed the essence of God so clearly, that she wrote of God as the Father and Mother of all. She also wrote of God as the divine Parent in her book Unity of Good:“That which was first was God, immortal Mind, the Parent of all” (p. 35).
