Editorial January 27, 1986 Issue

The ever-present help of God's grace

BARBARA-JEAN STINSON

It is almost instinctive for people, whether they consider themselves religious or not, to reach out to a higher power when they are faced with difficult situations they cannot manage alone. "O Father, please help me" is the natural prayer of almost everyone.

Christian Science enables us to pray with an expectancy that our honest desire to feel and know God's help will be answered. This Science reveals that because God, divine Love, is All-in-all, His presence is always right with us. "Are we benefited by praying?" Mrs. Eddy asks in Science and Health. And then she answers, "Yes, the desire which goes forth hungering after righteousness is blessed of our Father, and it does not return unto us void."^{Science and Health, p. 2.}

One key to feeling God's grace is this deep desire to do better than we have been doing. And in our heart of hearts we all have this desire because our nature actually has its source in God. As Christian Science teaches, it is God, pure Love, who has created our true selfhood as His image, spiritual man. When we pray for God's help, we're really asking to be given a better understanding of our true nature—what we are in truth as God's expression—a clearer idea of all that is pure and good about us.

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