Have you ever felt inadequate to meet a situation through prayer alone, perhaps thinking that your knowledge of Christian Science is too limited to demonstrate the power of Truth to heal? I know I have at times.
However, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, opens the Preface to her seminal work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, with these encouraging words: “To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings” (p. vii). Whenever we feel our prayers are not being answered, it helps to put our whole trust in God, divine Love. As the Bible shares in various ways, divine Love never lets us down, and we can lean—totally depend—on it to solve our problems. We need never entertain a limited sense of our ability to know the next right thing to do.
When one of our grandsons was very small, he loved for me to draw pictures with him, and we had happy times together. Later, when he was around five or six years old, the joy was sometimes interrupted because he would get upset and impatient with himself if something had not turned out quite the way he wanted it. And he would cry, “Oh, I’ve done it wrong; I’m no good—I can’t do it!”
