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If we are deeply grateful for the healings we have already witnessed in our own lives through Christian Science, we doubtless yearn humbly to approximate more closely the love and healing work of the Master, Christ Jesus. In the Gospels we read that Jesus instantaneously healed all manner of sickness and limitation, including lameness, blindness, hemorrhaging, sin, and death —all without resorting to material methods.

One afternoon while I was watching some high-school students swim their laps in preparation for the weekend's competition, the champion was asked how she was able to win so consistently. She said, "I stand on the box, envision the race, and then dive in and swim it.

We're never helpless in the face of adverse material evidence. There's always something we can do when confronted by disease, lack, failure, or enmity.

"The Monitor . " Just these two words came.

The focus of prayer is not the self. A man may spend hours meditating about himself, or be stirred by the deepest sympathy for his fellow man, and no prayer will come to pass.

Part of every service in the Church of Christ, Scientist, is devoted to silent prayer. How clear and constructive is our prayer during these moments? As with all scientific prayer, there is no formula for silent communion with God in church.

Have you ever heard the inward voice? There are many accounts in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, of the still small voice coming to men as distinctly as sound. For instance, Abraham heard it just in time to spare the life of his son, Isaac.

Visualize if you will a rosebud, a rather tight rosebud. Lovely as it may be in its present state, not until it opens out completely is the perfect beauty of the rose revealed.

A mountaintop can be thought of as far more than a mere physical locality. It can typify the altitude of consciousness where discordant earthly concepts are dropped and thought is uplifted through the Christ, Truth, to the spiritual sense of harmonious being.

Mind, God, knows only perfection. If only we always expressed that perfection in our churches, what healing we would do! But what if we make mistakes? Why, we can express mercy both to ourselves and to one another—until evidence of Mind's perfection is gained.