Article January 11, 1975 Issue

Count Yourself One of the Family

JOYCE E. DRONSFIELD

We all belong to God's family. This harmonious and joyous family consists of our Father-Mother God and His children. It is a universal family. All are included in divine Love's tender embrace.

God's family is unrestricted by finite limitations or boundaries, by considerations of race or background. There is no color barrier. None need apply to belong. Membership is the divine right of all. You can count yourself as one of the family—now and always! You can rejoice with the Apostle Paul that "ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God."^{ Eph. 2:19;}

We are all sons and daughters of the one universal God. Love inspires; Truth protects its family of ideas. Divine Mind provides only harmonious, united ideas as the family members. God is forever both Father and Mother to His family. Each child of God is a unique idea, needed and welcomed. In this family there are no unwanted or unloved ones, nor any orphans. This divine family is never broken up. It is forever maintained and preserved by God. The family is now and always complete, intact, and inviolate. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Immortals, or God's children in divine Science, are one harmonious family."^{ Science and Health, p. 444;}