"The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it" (Prov. 10:22). In these words of tender assurance, persuasive encouragement is found for one to claim and win an enriching, permanent blessing in the solution of each daily experience. An acceptance of each "blessing of the Lord" marks progressive spiritual growth. Whether a task appears trivial or forbidding, its real success depends upon the exercise of the spiritual qualities, which are required to meet and master every situation.
Christian Science awakens the receptive thinker and reveals to him the necessary divine counterfact with which to claim the victory over human discord. While the outward evidence appears as a physical, financial, or moral healing, the actual, fundamental blessing is a firmer, more unassailable understanding of man's oneness, or unity, with illimitable Love, God.
As we steadfastly maintain the wondrous fact of man's present perfection, we find it possible to realize and to hold to the needed corrective or divine idea until the blessing is established. On page 4 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy refers to this stalwart mental attitude of fidelity to the inaudible dictates of Truth. She says: "The habitual struggle to be always good is unceasing prayer. Its motives are made manifest in the blessings they bring,—blessings which, even if not acknowledged in audible words, attest our worthiness to be partakers of Love."
