Article June 5, 1965 Issue

True Parenthood

BERNICE KING BRIGHAM

Parenthood can bring one of the greatest joys in human experience, filled with hope and expectation, and rewarded by sweet companionship and the exchange of love. It can also bring one of life's greatest disappointments, the deterioration of hope.

Moved by love for their children, faced with a sense of inadequacy to meet the manifold spiritual demands made on them, and aware of the uncertainty of material life, new parents are often awakened to the need of the sustaining power of divine Love. Then they turn away somewhat from human planning and look to Love for guidance in molding the young lives entrusted to their care.

Fortunate indeed are the parents who learn through Christian Science that God, illimitable Love, creates and maintains all His ideas and that God is not only Father but Mother. In the sixty-sixth chapter of Isaiah we read God's message, "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." And in Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 507), "Spirit duly feeds and clothes every object, as it appears in the line of spiritual creation, thus tenderly expressing the fatherhood and motherhood of God."

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