Article June 7, 1982 Issue

Love guides the single parent

JEAN M. PETERSON

After the girls finished breakfast and went to their room to play, I began to pace the floor again. "What am I supposed to do? Go on welfare as family and friends think I should, or take a fulltime position? Could I earn enough to make the mortgage payments and still meet all the other financial demands of a family? How can I know which is the right decision? And, most important of all, who will take care of the girls if I do go to work?"

I was suddenly facing the future as a single parent of two small children, and I was terrified. But that morning I remembered how helpful the Bible had been to me since I began reading it seven years previously. As a fairly new student of Christian Science, I had been daily studying the Bible Lessons given in the Christian Science Quarterly. The Bible had already become instrumental in guiding my life.

According to John, Christ Jesus gave his disciples a new commandment—"That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." John 13:34. This love can be seen in the Sermon on the Mount as containing no anger, lust, deceit, injustice, selfishness, prejudice, judgment, or condemnation. The Christian tries daily to put such love into practice by expressing forgiveness, purity, honesty, justice, unselfishness, brotherly love. When the desire is to bless home and family, Christlike thinking touches everyone.

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