How important to the Christian Scientist are moments of quiet communion with God! Indeed, individuals experience healing and regeneration as their thinking is inspired with the spiritual facts of true being. For as one grasps the true meaning of his sonship with God, his thinking and his life witness the goodness and normality that belong to him as God's expression.
Mary, the mother of Jesus, glimpsed the spiritual nature of God's creation, and we read in the Scriptures that she kept and pondered in her heart the truths she knew. The human birth of Jesus bore witness to Mary's spiritual understanding of the fatherhood of God and the Christliness of sonship with Him.
Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writing of the Christmas season, alludes to "eloquent silence" and other spiritual qualities of thought that evidence spirituality. She says (Miscellany, p. 262), "I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth's appearing."
