Article April 23, 1932 Issue

"Love him more"!

MAY NORTON WILSON

A Young mother once came to a point where she did not know how to go on in her relation with her eight-year-old son. He was a loving little chap, but she felt that she did not understand him, and that they were growing apart. She turned to God for guidance; and to her astonishment, into her consciousness there came these words: "Love him more! Love him more!" And she had thought that no mother could love her child more than she loved hers!

Years have passed since this troubled mother turned for help to our Father-Mother God; and the study of Christian Science has taught her a deeper meaning of those words, "Love him more!" She has found they do not mean that the mother should love the child more in a human way, for this kind of love leads to bondage for both mother and child. It leads to a false sense of responsibility which persuades a mother that she is responsible for every act of her child. It leads to anxiety lest he do something wrong; so that gradually she comes to watch for wrong instead of right in her child.

To this student, "Love him more!" obeyed, leads to the perception of "the glorious liberty of the children of God." It means that we must understand our fellow man better by understanding the man that God made in His image and likeness, "the full representation of Mind" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 591). Since God's man is "the full representation of Mind," he is complete and perfect, not lacking in anything at any time; and no self-will, no fear, no hate, no jealousy or resentment, no misunderstanding, can harass or confuse him.

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