Article May 26, 1945 Issue

Expecting and Accepting

ANNE R. ADAMS

There is a difference between expecting healing in Christian Science and actually accepting it. To expect healing is to look for it at some future time or to wait with anticipation for it. To accept healing is to receive it, to entertain it or to agree to it now. It is right both to expect healing to be manifest in our experiences and to accept the perfection which is ours by divine reflection.

When we turn to Christian Science for healing, it is natural for us to expect to be healed. But if we accept the perfection which we learn belongs to man, we commence to eliminate the thought of time, which is mortal, and bring into our experience the truth of Paul's words (II Cor. 6:2), "Now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." Expectation, like faith, helps us on toward spiritual freedom; but acceptance of the facts of true being brings healing through understanding.

Every Christian Science healing should be considered in the "now" of possibility and demonstration. Every treatment should be so complete in itself that no suggestion of incompleteness could remain. The one who asks for treatment in Christian Science can wisely let go of the human sense of hours, days, or years of discord which may have seemed to precede his asking for help, and pray to understand his heritage of freedom as a child of God. Since error has no past, its claim to a past can be met in the present. A realization of this fact will dispel the dark shadows of mystery and reveal the light of instant reflection. Such erroneous beliefs as heredity, prenatal influence and accident are not more difficult to heal because they claim to have a past. We do not have to go back into some dense mortal forest and grope through it in search of a hidden ghost. We can dissolve the belief of a past now by knowing the truth which reverses it.

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