If you have children, for the best results in raising them, see them as children of God.
A child of God is whole and complete before time ever was.
Raising children is about raising consciousness to see what God created in the first place.
God’s child does not need to be managed, coerced, threatened, or intimidated into doing the right thing. They are divinely designed to do the right thing. They reflect the Mind of God that knows, understands, and comprehends the right thing to do. God inspires them to do the right thing!
Our work with children is to love them for who they are. To let them be what God created them to be.
Like planting a seed in your garden and trusting that everything exists in that seed to grow into a fruit producing plant. You do not try to alter the seed. The faithful gardener waters her seeds with attention, nourishes growth with love, keeps the weeds away so it can flourish, and celebrates its fruits. The nurturing gardener maintains conditions that are promotive of the seed’s success.
Every child is like a seed from God that contains spiritually within everything they need to flourish. Our job is to see and honor what God put there. It’s grand and glorious!
“Children. The spiritual thoughts and representatives of Life, Truth, and Love”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 582).
So true Evan. Those thoughts are like the ideas I had when raising my daughter who went on to get a PHD and now teaches in college. I was always looking her as a complete intelligent being. I always worked to see her in Gods eyes and saw her as unfolding under Gods design.. I then went on to teach in grade school under learning disabilities classroom. Amazing good reports there also as I confirmed each day their unlimited potential for intelligence each day. Divine Science when applied to raising or teaching children has remarkable benefits for all.
Thank you Evan. God’s child IS whole and complete. These are very wise words. And since we are all the children of God, at any age, it’s important to know that everything you wrote is also true of everyone we encounter, including ourselves. God put in us everything we need to thrive, we don’t need to pray it into existence, it is there. I loved this line from an article shared recently that prayer is not about making something change it is rather, “an invitation to watch what God is doing.” Shared by J (thank you) on 2/14:
“If the weight of the world feels overwhelming” by Michelle Nanouche:
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/A-Christian-Science-Perspective/2012/0209/If-the-weight-of-the-world-feels-overwhelming
Thank you Evan. This is excellent – with so many wonderful points to ponder.
Deborah, thank you for your dedication as a teacher, and for looking beyond labels to see unlimited potential in your students. And Rose, thank you for your comments. So true that everything Evan said applies to everyone. I also loved that line that “prayer is watching what God is doing.”
Another quote from Daniel Jensen: “As God’s child, I am His heir…heir to every quality and function of God. I am not a mortal child or parent, but a divine idea from a perfect Father-Mother God.”
Thank you very much indeed Evan, for your so loving SpiritView about CHILDREN as coming.from God , containing everything in it what they need, to thrive abundantly in Spirit!
Decades ago when I was sunday school teacher for the 3 to 4 year old sweet children I often prepared myself with the advices in the red book “teaching in sunday school” published by The Motherchurch. And nearly for every Sunday I took deeply to heart that Definition of “Children” from the Glossar in Science and Health which Evan mentions today in SpiritView, to see them as such in the Sundayschool.
From one of my pupils I know that she prospers. She gives classes in playing the violin today.
Thank you very much that you teaches us the absolute spiritual view of CHILDREN. I love what you write, Evan, up here namely “Every.child is like a seed from God, (we included) that contains spiritually within everything they need to flourish”.
Thank you Rose and “J” and Debby; you have so inspiring ideas in your comments!♡♡♡
Dear Evan, I did not get this SpiritView in my email inbox today so I did press “newer” in yesterday’s SV. Am grateful for the healing inspiration you give us so lovingly everyday!♡
I did not receive in my inbox yesterday. Came to your website to see if there was one for yesterday.