Article October 8, 1990 Issue

Why blame God?

If things go wrong in your life, is God made the scapegoat?

Alberta R. Cadmus

A friend and I were seated on the front stoop of my house, chatting away, when her four-year-old decided to see how many steps he could jump off at one time. The first and second steps were easy and fun. Upon his reaching the third step, however, his mother told him to stop or he would get hurt. He just looked at us and, with an impish grin, proceeded to jump.

Instead of his landing on his feet, his knees buckled, and this caused him to fall onto the concrete sidewalk. The boy was not hurt; he was just upset that he had failed. His mother, reacting from fear, scolded, "See what happens when you disobey me? God is punishing you."

I immediately thought to myself, "No way!" As a lifelong student of Christian Science, I've come to see that there's never a need or reason to blame God when things go wrong.

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