You've contacted a Christian Science practitioner for treatment and healing. Don't drift along even for a moment with the thought that you have simply transferred your worries to somebody else and left yourself with nothing to do. It's much more fruitful to have the feeling that we're calling on an experienced and spiritually-minded Christian Scientist to work along with us in resolving the problem of being. Whatever the challenge facing us, we should view it in the larger context as a chance to work out one more phase in our sense of what being really is. As we do this, we contribute very much to clearing the way for healing.
"We must look deep into realism instead of accepting only the outward sense of things," Science and Health, p. 129. Mary Baker Eddy tells us in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. When we approach a Christian Science practitioner, it may seem, to the outward picture of things, that we are turning to a human being for spiritual assistance; but the predominant feeling we should have is that we are turning to divine Spirit for the help. Or, to look from another angle, we should ask the practitioner for help from the basis that the practitioner, scientifically speaking, is inseparable from Spirit and is inseparable from the endless, divine intelligence that derives from Spirit.
There are many things we can do in heightening our responsiveness to Christian Science treatment. Obviously, we should carefully ponder any references to the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings recommended by the practitioner. Even if a passage pointed out to us is very familiar, we should nevertheless approach it with freshness and with an expectation of seeing fresh light on it. The practitioner is depending on spiritual intuition and inspiration, and we should take seriously whatever is prescribed in the way of some change in our reasoning, or in tightening our grasp on a particular aspect of Christian Science.
