From the Editors May 20, 2013 Issue

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.

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