Mother's Day

The Editors

While many mothers around the world will be honored in some way on this special holiday, it’s worth taking a few moments to consider the one Mother all of us have and that we can never lose, namely God, our Father-Mother.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, describes our divine Parent: “Love, the divine Principle, is the Father and Mother of the universe, including man” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 256 ). In this statement she reveals the nature of true Mother-Love, and also provides for its purity and constancy by associating it with divine Principle.

This is the Mother who comforts not only the mothers who see themselves as “good mothers,” but also the mothers who feel like failures, or who are on drugs, or whose children have just been lost in war or other tragic circumstances. The divine Mother holds tenderly all mothers and mothers-to-be.

This divine Mother also mothers orphans or abandoned children, the abused or neglected, and those who are not mothers or whose mothers have passed on. She is perpetually with each of us.

Mother never gives up on Her loved ones.

The nature of our divine Mother is outlined beautifully in Ezekiel’s description of the good shepherd, showing that this Mother never gives up on Her loved ones: “As a shepherd seeketh out [her] flock in the day that [she] is among [her] sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day” (Ezekiel 34:12 ). Whether the “dark day” is a time of war, loss, or grief, Mother-Love is there to comfort and strengthen.

Our divine Mother’s love is practical, and She provides for Her children’s needs: “They lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed” (Ezekiel 34:14 ). Whether we are in settled circumstances or refugee camps, in war zones or vibrant cities, right there, Mother-Love is with us.

Our divine Mother doesn’t just love the “good kids” or the good mothers. Even if a mother or a child has strayed, neither one can escape Her goodness: “I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick” (Ezekiel 34:16 ).

Divine Love is infinite, active, insistent that our nature is spiritual and that we can perceive our own goodness and spirituality and that of our children. Divine Love doesn’t give up. So wherever you are on Mother’s Day or afterward, smile with great gratitude and assurance. Mother dearly loves you, your mother, and your children—and always will.

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