Editorial December 22, 1980 Issue

Healing yourself

GEOFFREY J. BARRATT

One of the best ways of growing in Christian Science is applying to ourselves, in our own circumstances, whatever spiritual verities we have already learned—even though they may seem to be meager. Nothing is more spiritually rewarding than proving for ourselves that our hold on Christian Science is authentic and workable.

There's great reassurance in knowing that we can have with us at all times and in all conditions that which heals: spiritual understanding. The healings that come about through our own prayer, then, are an indispensable part of our development as Christian Scientists.

Not only can we heal ourselves if we're willing to accept what healing involves—but we have the opportunity. Who among us can look around our lives and find that everything is just right? We are all having presented to us right now openings for practicing what we are learning of Science. To be sure, the right motive is essential: to discover more of God and man. And, "A deep sincerity is sure of success, for God takes care of it,"^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 203;} Mary Baker Eddy writes.