Article February 13, 2017 Issue

Your healing practice can come to perfect bloom!

Julie Ward

It was a cold, raw December day. As I opened the mailbox in front of my home, I was startled to see a perfect yellow blossom on the rosebush beside the box. As I took a moment to drink in its beauty, I remembered another rose next to another mailbox that had triggered a turning point for me many years ago.

I prayed, searching to understand more fully the basis of Christian Science.

During my college years, I had the privilege of receiving Primary class instruction in Christian Science, a class that’s taught from the chapter “Recapitulation” in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. This class had been foundational in my spiritual development. Although I had loved Christian Science since my childhood, in the class I had begun to understand more about the application of Christian Science, how it actually works and why it works. I had learned how to give Christian Science treatment, which is specific healing prayer for an individual who has asked for help. Such prayer is based on Bible-derived spiritual truths such as the allness of God, infinite good, and the genuine nature of man as God’s perfect image and likeness (see Jeremiah 23:23, 24; Psalms 136:1; Genesis 1:26, 27). And I loved to pray! I left that class with my sleeves rolled up—ready and willing to go forward in my practice of Christian Science.