How did he pray? his disciples must have often wondered. They saw the healing results of Jesus' prayers: a bowed body standing straight, Zacchaeus escaping from a rut of greed and corruption, the bitter life of a prostitute purified, spiritualized, sweetened to a deep and humble love.
A woman who'd suffered more years than she wanted to remember came to touch the hem of his robe. Timid about breaking a custom barrier that said a woman in her condition must not touch another person? Maybe. Or could it be her years of doctoring had wearied her too much to tell one more person of her complaint? Whatever. Pushing through the crowd, she didn't try to impress him with her plight; she brought her life within the range of his prayers. She was healed in that moment. How did this man pray?
When the disciples asked Christ Jesus to teach them how to pray, he did. Writing of that moment in an enlightening first chapter, entitled "Prayer," in the Christian Science textbook, Mrs. Eddy states, "Our Master said, 'After this manner therefore pray ye,' and then he gave that prayer which covers all human needs." Science and Health, p. 16;
