Students of Christian Science are striving to demonstrate in improving degree God's power to heal. Expectancy of God's ever-readiness to help and support His offspring, man, is natural and essential. We need not believe the suggestion that healing takes time, that there must be a recuperative period. Prayerful communion with God that shows us the spiritual facts of our being can result, without process or time, in the evidence of these facts in our experience. Neither practitioner nor patient should accept the belief that healing needs to come gradually.
Recently I was faced with severe pain in my head and stomach. I had experienced these attacks before and it usually took a day or two to regain my freedom and health. I sat down quietly and read this statement by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science: "Change the evidence, and that disappears which before seemed real to this false belief, and the human consciousness rises higher. Thus the reality of being is attained and man found to be immortal. The only fact concerning any material concept is, that it is neither scientific nor eternal, but subject to change and dissolution." Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 297
In one quick instant I saw clearly that the evidence of my harmonious being was a fact and that what was arguing as pain was only a suggestion and it was changeable. I was so convinced of this that I decided right then to get up from the chair and rejoice in the evidence of my painless being. The pain was utterly gone at that moment, and I was conscious only of a present sense of peace. No recuperative process was necessary.
