For the third night, I had taken my pillow and blanket to sleep on the sofa. I felt as if my world were caving in on me. My husband and I had been married for only a few months when the couple from whom we were renting a house decided to break our lease to give the house to their son. We were to be out within a month. There were no comparable rental houses nearby. We were scrambling to see if we could purchase a house, but it didn’t look promising. 

I was surprised and hurt when my parents said they weren’t interested in helping us, though they had recently helped another family member with a larger transaction. That didn’t seem fair. In addition, I had developed an aggressive cough that was keeping me from work and keeping my husband awake at night. Thus, I was sleeping on the sofa. 

Trying to become mentally still, I wholeheartedly reached out to God, divine Love, to help me. The thought that came, distinctly, was “God is your Mother.” It seemed simple, but I found myself wrestling with this spiritual concept deep into the night. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, presented the concept of God as a loving Mother as well as Father. She wrote, “Father-Mother is the name for Deity, which indicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 332).