Article October 22, 1979 Issue

Promoting spiritual development in children

[Original in Spanish]

GANDHI MONDINO

There is an anecdote about a small boy who often visited a sculptor and was fascinated to watch him working. One day a large block of marble was brought to the studio, and the sculptor began to work on it. The marble took shape little by little: first one could recognize a vague figure, then it began to resemble an animal, and finally the sculpture of a lion had been fashioned. When it was finished, the boy asked the sculptor in amazement: "How did you know there was a lion in the marble?"

Those of us who have children may feel sometimes like the boy in this story. Can we know what is going to appear as our children grow? How can we bring out their innate spiritual qualities and help our children realize the true ideal? How can we develop our children morally and spiritually?

Just as the sculptor knows what is going to appear, we too can know, through Christian Science, what there really is in each child. In divine fact, only what God has made can be there, to be seen or to develop. God is the only creator, and His creation expresses His nature. God being perfect, man is, too. God being Spirit, man is spiritual—not a material mortal, born and developed on the basis of human laws outside God's control. What we call our child is forever the perfect expression of God, developing in obedience to his creator

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