When I was a child, my mother would take me to see a Christian Science practitioner when I didn’t feel well. It was such a good experience that I remember sometimes saying, “Please, Momma, take me to that nice lady. She will talk to God, and I will feel better.” Not only was I always healed, but I tangibly felt loved, and felt that I was loving and good, too.
As I grew, I wondered more about this love that I felt through Christian Science treatment. I realized that there is a deep connection between love and the transforming power of prayer.
St. John wrote that “God is love” (I John 4:8). And Mary Baker Eddy explained what God’s love does in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “God will heal the sick through man, whenever man is governed by God” (p. 495). When we allow the love that springs from God to govern our daily thinking and living, it has a healing effect. The love that heals is not a mere personal sense of love that varies with circumstances; it is pure love that cannot change.
