I discovered recently how rewarding it is to set a goal, in our daily study and prayers, of consistently moving beyond mere belief in God—where thought often settles down too comfortably with familiar words—into spiritual understanding, where healing works are accomplished.
Although this certainly takes an effort, particularly in emptying out all the material concerns that would clog thought, spiritual understanding is natural to us. It's a quality of man's true being. It isn't a human process. It doesn't require some sort of intense human concentration as though one were trying to memorize a speech. Rather, it comes through a quiet yielding in prayer to the pure, uplifting influence of Christ and the immutable fact of divine Mind's allness.
What brought this into focus for me was two passages, one from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and the other from the Bible. I had read them literally hundreds of times before—truly familiar words—but suddenly they came together with fresh inspiration and power.
