Wonderful healings have taken place as a result of acknowledging God's allness, His perfection and goodness. This is so often the thrust of a Christian Scientist's prayer.
In such prayer, Christian Scientists recognize with spiritual clarity the fact that God, Spirit, is infinite and flawless. They affirm with gratitude that man's true being expresses the wholeness and well-being inherent in the divine nature. They reject with firmness the false belief that evil, sin, or sickness of any type has any place in any of God's creation.
This approach to prayer may feel inconsistent with the kind of prayer that would look up to or out at a God in some far-off place and ask Him to come closer and make things better. Such an effort to commune with God—asking, pleading, or maybe even begging— usually is just not the way a Christian Scientist thinks of prayer. I say usually, because when things seem desperate, praying this way may seem very natural!
