Article June 17, 1972 Issue

What Can We Do for Our Children?

BETH NEWTON SAVAGE

If one of our children has left home, broken all ties with the family, and decided to live a life-style contrary to our ideals, can we do anything? If communication has ceased and the allowance has been cut off, can we again establish a harmonious relationship?

When our children seem to be lost sheep, the challenge is to know and understand God, Love, better, no matter what our children may say, how they may dress, or where they may live. Whatever picture of our children we see, we need to accept only a concept of perfect Love guiding and caring for all its creation.

The study of Christian Science can show us how to do this. A student of Mrs. Eddy's quotes her teacher as saying in substance: "I want you to think of God as Father, Mother, Shepherd; as the Father who sustains, maintains, supports, and cares for man; as the Mother who takes the little babe to her breast with ineffable tenderness; as the Shepherd who watches over the sheep, seeks the lost lamb, and when the little lamb strays again, goes after it no matter how often it strays, and brings it back, until at last it grows to be a sheep and knows its master's voice, and follows Him. Think of the changeless nature of the Shepherd!"^{Historical Sketches by Clifford P. Smith, p. 143;}

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