Article March 12, 1966 Issue

"Desire is prayer"

MARTIN BROONES

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 1), "Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds."

Prayer is the desire for good. It transcends such personal, selfish desires in the world as: I want money; I want power; I want beauty; I want fame; I want position; I want adulation; I want health; I want happiness.

Christ Jesus lifted "I want" to the plane of answered prayer when he said (Luke 22:42), "Not my will, but thine, be done." Jesus understood God's will to be the expression of divine Love. He taught his followers to pray (Matt. 6:10), "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."

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