In the Bible God repeatedly tells us that He will deliver us (see Isaiah 46:4, for example). The Scriptures are reminding us that God is the creator and the great deliverer.
What a joy it was to prepare spiritually for the births of my children, praying with the help of a Christian Science practitioner when expecting the arrival of a baby. A favorite passage from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, next to the marginal heading “Scientific obstetrics,” says: “Though gathering new energy, this idea cannot injure its useful surroundings in the travail of spiritual birth. A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive. The new idea, conceived and born of Truth and Love, is clad in white garments. Its beginning will be meek, its growth sturdy, and its maturity undecaying” (p. 463).
Pondering this daily brought me great freedom from the human discomforts so commonly associated with pregnancy. I regularly prayed to know that the child to come was already a complete, perfect, spiritual idea of our Father-Mother God—God’s own delightful image and likeness. I was learning that all the healthy and beautiful qualities of God are included within and natural to each one of us.
