Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds." Mary Baker Eddy considered these words of such importance that she put them on page 1 of the opening chapter of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Again, speaking of sincere petitions, Mrs. Eddy says on page 13, "If we cherish the desire honestly and silently and humbly, God will bless it, and we shall incur less risk of overwhelming our real wishes with a torrent of words."
If there is before us any unfulfilled human wish, any sense of not getting something we very much want, let us make haste to examine our thinking. Is the desire in accord with divine wisdom? If we can truly answer, "Yes," then we are ready to "cherish the desire honestly"' so that it will bear fruit. In Mark's Gospel we read Christ Jesus' words (11: 24), "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." The first requisite is faith.
Christian Science comes to free those bound by a sense of frustration because their desires have not been realized. It gives positive assurance that there is in reality nothing that can limit, disappoint, or constitute an obstacle of any kind to the desire born of God. If in human experience one is beset with a yearning to fulfill some long-cherished and worthy desire, may that one heed our Leader's inspiring words (Science and Health, p. 128), "A knowledge of the Science of being develops the latent abilities and possibilities of man."
