Christian Science practitioners recently talked with the Journal about their healing practices, and how their professional work as practitioners affects their personal lives. Tony is a contributing editor for the Journal. He is also Christian Science Committee on Publication for Greater London and District Manager for Great Britain and Ireland.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote, "The song of Christian Science is, 'Work—work—work—watch and pray'" (Message to The Mother Church for 1900, p. 2). So, the conscientious practice of Christian Science healing is a demanding activity. As a married couple, each with your own healing practice, what sustains you?
JENNY: This sentence in Science and Health means a lot to me: "Spirit diversifies, classifies, and individualizes all thoughts, which are as eternal as the Mind conceiving them; but the intelligence, existence, and continuity of all individuality remain in God, who is the divinely creative Principle thereof" (p. 513). It's this "divinely creative Principle" that sustains the practice, because it's always telling me who I am and who my patients are. I'm learning to be more and more consistent in putting my life in God's hands, as it were. Considering all the complexities of daily life, just getting by day by day can seem like a struggle, if you think you have to work it out all by yourself. But turning to the one divine Mind gives one a totally different perspective. You realize more of the infinite potential of Truth and Love to bring solutions.
