In Christian Science we learn that our only true Father and Mother is God, but this does not release us from the debt of gratitude we owe to our human parents who lovingly share their home with us.
In the thirty-third Psalm, the Psalmist had just acknowledged God not only as the creator of the heavens and the earth, but also as the source of all goodness when he sang, "Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
