Q. How can you overcome a sense of responsibility for the patient to be healed quickly?
A. Along with the practice of Christian Science, there comes to the practitioner a wonderful realization that the work itself is a way of feeling God’s care and love. The calling to do the work comes from God and is completely supported by God. This love felt, naturally extends to every case that comes to you. Since it is God’s active love for all, not only is the patient enveloped in His loving presence, but the practitioner and the prayerful work done are embraced by divine Love. The Comforter, which is the practical assurance that we can prove God’s supremacy over any discord, covers all needs, quiets every fear. It is the promise that all things are possible to God.
Although the practitioner must conscientiously go about giving treatment, the effective result of treatment reveals God’s ever-present maintenance of His own cherished creation. As the hymn goes, “God it is who bears us on, / His the arm we lean upon” (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 53).
