Who doesn't have some problem he or she wants to have healed? One way we can open the door for this blessing and start the process is by attending a Christian Science Wednesday evening meeting.

In these meetings people tell of healings and experiences they have had through Christian Science. Their experiences of God's care inspire hope. We mutually rejoice with them. Many testify how spiritually enlightened prayer has resolved physical, social, financial, or other specific problems. They often explain something of how they prayed, what steps they took in correcting wrong, and how they became more impelled by God's love in their daily affairs. They relate how prayer not only awakened their thought but quieted it from fear and frustration so it was ready to accept God's love. They often explain how this love of God, when honestly trusted in, brought physical healing or met some other human need.

Although in many instances physical healing is the immediate need being sought, as one continues in Christian Science an inner spiritual awakening begins to emerge. One gains a desire for better thinking and motives. Healing takes on a deeper meaning, and one longs to understand and learn more of these spiritual truths. Healing prayer in Christian Science involves systematic, spiritual reasoning through which one discovers the tangible qualities and values of God's love for man, His beloved child. Such prayer is much more than hopeful petition for something better. It's the acknowledgment and acceptance of what God is being and doing and of man's genuine relationship to God as His image and likeness, as God's reflection, His expression.

This faith comes through a childlike expectancy of joy, through gratitude and the solid conviction of His love for us. As we yield to the presence of this divine Love that heals and acknowledge it as already at hand, we begin to experience God's government in our lives. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, "When man is governed by God, the ever-present Mind who understands all things, man knows that with God all things are possible."

The practice of spiritual healing isn't a complicated intellectual process of mental argument, although the Christian Scientist may work with and ponder specific spiritual truths and deny specific fears. Underlying all this reasoning there still remains that sweet buoyant expectancy and hope fostered by God's unfailing love for each of us. It's that gentle coming into oneness with this divine goodness of the healing Christ that does the work.

Testimonies of Christian Science healing frequently refer to this inner embrace, which words are inadequate to explain. You just feel it and carry away with you a calm assurance that God knows your need and His infinite Love will care for you and yours. As Christ Jesus assured us, "Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." It's an acceptance of the presence of the Christ right where the need seems to be; fear disappears and you find yourself on the mend.

Testifiers at Wednesday evening meetings often refer to a searching desire to give up ugly character traits and to identify more with the Christly ideals that Jesus taught. They may also mention how they found great help in daily study of weekly Bible Lessons outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly. These lessons include Bible passages and corresponding passages in Science and Health. Spiritual healing is a private experience, a "do it yourself" with God. It's search that can also be supported by Christian Science practitioners. A visit to a local Christian Science Reading room will help move you forward in your search for Truth. The joy and prospect of being reborn and having a fresh new start are stirring and encouraging. Your thought opens to an ever-increasing awareness of God as indestructible, ageless, eternal, permanent Life; as a just, perfect, and forever free power known as Truth; and as the all-good, understanding, and forgiving heavenly Love already present and emerging in your life.

Many times the writer has come to a Wednesday meeting downhearted only to find this strong embrace of God's tender care for man being shared in such practical ways that he was picked up and sent on his way with renewed hope. Spiritual ideas begin to take root in thought and spring forth to meet a specific challenge successfully in just this way.

You, too, can discover this same spiritual sense of the presence of God's love for you, His beloved child, and begin to acquire the spiritual conviction that naturally flows from actual proofs of God's care. These proofs stick with you, take hold in your thinking, provide strength and encouragement, giving a renewed sense of hope, faith, and reliance that flows from God's peace and joy. As we feel embraced in God's heavenly kingdom, a quiet willingness to listen for and trust in His guidance invariably opens thought and leads to right answers.

Healings never stop. The more we grow in our understanding of God as the source of all good, and of man, you and me, as the living evidence of all this goodness, the more we enjoy the fruits of it in our homes, our work, our families, our health, and our relations with others. There's nothing too good for God's creation.

So come to the Wednesday evening healing meeting, share in it, and get started in claiming God's goodness. What a promise the Scriptures give: "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."