Ask God

I am grateful for the Christian Science that is taught and practiced here in helping me to establish a real relationship with God. By that I mean when I first came here I was quite hyper. I was always ready to act on every thought that popped into my head and was ready to help anybody who looked like they needed help. Quick to do things but not very peaceful. Shortly after I got here a practitioner took me aside and told me to stop whatever I was doing several times a day and have a conversation with God. Just talk to Him like a friend. Ask Him what He has for me. Ask Him if there’s someone who needs my help. Then peacefully wait for the answer to come before I go rushing into whatever I was doing.

I found this to be an extremely valuable discipline because it made me more peaceful. I stopped doing a lot of things that, in hindsight, didn’t really need to be done. It was the beginning of a real relationship with God, because before then, my asking wasn’t consistent. It was always God up there somewhere and me down here, and then my turning to Him when I was in trouble. I have a closer relationship with God now. I can feel His love for me much better now. That enables me to have more compassion for others. It has given me a sense of peace and a purpose to my life that I never knew. I can’t be grateful enough for the help of that practitioner and for Mary Baker Eddy for giving us this Science of living, the Science of Christianity.