Prayer, with its direct impact on consciousness, changes it to higher, more spiritual views. And as this change occurs in thought, we can reasonably expect to see less violence and more humanity, affection, compassion, and healing appear.
Even if internal temptation or external peer pressure leads us to believe the opposite, a clean heart and a right spirit are native to us as God’s offspring.
Your “basket of beautiful peaches” may be hours, even days, of cherishing our own or another’s relationship to God, since our prayers for ourselves, our families, and the world are so needed.
In the midst of personal loss, we can stand on these promises of the continuity of God, divine good, and the unebbing joy and pleasure of experiencing Love’s presence.
There is no feeling of separation when we lean on and understand divine Principle, Love; any sense of a void is already filled with the one constant, reliable, ever-present All-in-all—God.
Seeing Christlike understanding manifested in healing requires ongoing spiritualization and regeneration of thought and expressing more Christian values in daily life.
I was receptive because my heart yearned for better answers, and I have been endlessly grateful ever since to my friend for sharing Christian Science in the way he did.
