What helped reassure me was the truth that God is everyone’s Father-Mother. Father is a common name for God in the Bible. For instance, Psalms 68:5 promises, “A father of the fatherless ... is God in his holy habitation.” And Isaiah 66:13 compares God to a mother: “As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.” Christian Science combines “Father” and “Mother” to describe God’s entire nature.