Article August 14, 1995 Issue

If helping seems a burden

James Marshall Fabian

Are you apprehensive about caring for your own or your spouse's parents? The media report increasing numbers of grown children with responsibility for the care of their parents as well as of their own family and jobs. Sometimes, this may appear to be an enormous demand. But what may have seemed a burdensome duty can be a joy as we realize that God is the true source of care for every one of His children. By leaning on God's sustaining power, we can be grateful to be called to the work of helping others.

"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings," writes Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health (p. vii). What does it mean to lean on God? It indicates, among other things, full confidence in the means of support. The blessings from leaning on God include growth in spiritual understanding, wisdom, courage, as well as the confidence needed to take the most appropriate steps in helping another.

Because it is the nature of God to uphold His spiritual idea, man, there's no possibility of falling out of His care! God knows and sustains the man of His creating, and spiritual man expresses God in fullness of life. God's love for His creation is dependable. Man reflects divine Love in all its beauty and completeness. Love's healing power is never lacking. It's this supporting Love that is always at hand to bless both those who are helping and those they help.

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