Article July 6, 1981 Issue

Right expectations

MARGARET D. MIXER

When we fill a kettle with water and set it on a lighted burner, we expect the water to boil. We do not wonder if perhaps the law will fail to operate this time and the water remain cold.

When a Christian Science treatment is given, there should be a firm trust in the operation of God's law of harmony and the consequent healing or adjustment. Healing must be expected, for if the scientific laws of well-being are consistently followed, harmony will be manifested. Nothing can stop such an effect.

Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, speaks of the necessity of having "an absolute faith that all things are possible to God." The complete statement opens the first chapter of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health: "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love."^{Science and Health, p. 1.}