Imagine you’re at a large, boisterous party, mingling with other guests, when the faint sound of a beloved song coming from a stereo in the background catches your attention. It might be too quiet to hear the tune or words clearly, yet it is so familiar that you are able to sing along in perfect unison.
That’s how we might think of God’s voice coming to us. Even in the midst of the clamor of worldly opinions, it can come as a calm, rational direction. And it’s familiar to us because it comes from divine Spirit, in whom “we live, and move, and have our being” (Acts 17:28). We are in perfect unison with thoughts from God.
When we pray, we are not trying to bring God closer to us or attempting to move closer to God. We already exist as a reflection of our Father-Mother God’s being. Because God is, we are. As Christian Science teaches, prayer involves changing our perception of ourselves as mortal to the true understanding of who we are as God’s children. Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “The effect of this Science is to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind” (p. 162).
