Healing occurs when we feel the ineffably tender relationship that exists between us and our Father-Mother God, who already knows all our needs and who in reality has already satisfied them out of His limitless self-containment and wisdom. Then spiritual healing comes in peace, in a quiet realization of an eternal fact. And it is invariably possible, because nothing can withstand omnipotent, divine Love.
There is healing power even in the letter of Christian Science. But the words, however true, must be accompanied by the spirit of our conviction of their truth. This spirit comes through our awareness that God loves all—the healer and the patient alike—and that we also love Him with our full heart.
Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, was well aware of God's love for him and spoke of it many times. And in the sixteenth chapter of John we read that he said to the disciples (v. 27), "The Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God." Genuine Christian Science treatment includes the wordless consciousness of divine presence, that loving touch of infinite Mind which transcends the words. The Bible has called it "a still small voice," I Kings 19:12; or in the original Hebrew "a sound of a gentle stillness."
