A Christian Science healing is not just an indication that yesterday one had an illness and has recovered, or that a broken bone has knitted. It is an awakening to the continuity of well-being, to the fact that there has never been an illness or a fracture, since man is spiritual and has always been preserved intact by his creator. God's perfection never varies, and this means that man, His reflection, remains perfect.
A practitioner who felt he must change a sick or sinful mortal into a good, healthy man would be saddled with a burden too heavy for him to carry. But God expresses Himself permanently through perfect, spiritual man. When the practitioner recognizes this, his thought is relieved of all false responsibility, and he is left free to behold and rejoice in the good God has already provided, the perfection that is changeless because its divine source is changeless.
The final step in any healing is the realization that good was never absent, never interrupted. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes, "The relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history." Science and Health, pp. 470, 471;
