Forever child

You are the
child of God –
child
child
child of God –
not grown-up of God
or
adolescent … infant … embryo
millennial, baby boomer, or anything else of God
but
child
innocent
pure
spiritual
perfect
fresh
vibrant
receptive

trusting
joyful
completely cared for and watched over
every moment of every day
and every moment of every night
forever
forever
forever
child of God

Mortals will lose their sense of mortality – disease, sickness, sin, and death – in the proportion that they gain the sense of man’s spiritual preexistence as God’s child; as the offspring of good, and not of God’s opposite, – evil, or a fallen man.
 – Mary Baker Eddy, “Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896,” p. 181

Poem originally published in the Aug. 6, 2018, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel.