In "No and Yes," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 39): "Prayer can neither change God, nor bring His designs into mortal modes; but it can and does change our modes and our false sense of Life, Love, and Truth, uplifting us to Him. Such prayer humiliates, purifies, and quickens activity, in the direction that is unerring." This has certainly been my experience.
Late in 1951, while I was employed in a New England department store, I became overwhelmed with a sense of frustration and discouragement. What I believed to be the intelligent application of the best practices of merchandising had recently met with diminishing returns. Part of this, I believed, was caused by too rigid control by an inexperienced new supervisor who almost convinced me that I lacked the skill to do the job.
At this point I attended a Christian Science lecture. I was at once encouraged, because the lecturer assured us that the blessings from applying God's law of Love to our human experience cannot be limited because of past mistakes or present unhappy involvements.
