Early in my study of Christian Science I learned the importance of spiritual alertness. As a result of some very challenging experiences, I began to see that we don't pray to change people or circumstances. We pray to maintain a more consistent sense of our unbroken unity with God as His idea, untouched by the trauma of human experience. I've found that the natural outcome of this alertness has been wonderful healings of all sorts.
The daily study and practice of Christian Science enables us to understand more the nature of God, divine Love, and our own identity as God's likeness. Christian Science teaches that God is wholly good, that not a vestige of evil exists in Him. It teaches that the real man is Godlike, that he reflects God. This identity is expressed as we are alert to identify ourselves with the spiritual qualities of God's being and not with the destructive reactions of material-mindedness.
When we actively live such God-derived qualities as love, honesty, fulfillment, and usefulness, we neutralize their supposititious opposites—resentment, dishonesty, discontentment, idleness. Human betterment comes about as such impositions are replaced with spiritual truths that express God, divine Mind.
