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Eye on the world: Patience and progress
In “Patience as a virtue in restarting a democracy” The Christian Science Monitor’s Editorial Board talks about the “... power of patience in politics and diplomacy.” The editorial notes: “Patience is not merely waiting or code for inaction. It builds on and appreciates each step of progress.”
Ideas on this subject:
From the Bible:
Let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
—Hebrews 12:1
Let patience have her perfect work.
—James 1:4
From the writings of Mary Baker Eddy:
What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.
—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 4
In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error,—self-will, self-justification, and self-love,—which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death.
—Science and Health, p. 242
Related articles from the Christian Science Sentinel and The Christian Science Monitor’s “A Christian Science perspective” column:
In “Patience—a passive longing or an active trust?”: “The waiting for God’s power to be realized in human experience includes prayer that actively affirms divine reality as the present truth, not as a far-off theory or longed-for eventuality. Patient waiting in this sense trusts implicitly that God is infinite good now, and that man, as God’s perfect likeness, reflects the divine good now.”
In “Why patience?”: “For patience to be healing and effective, it must go beyond a human sense of waiting or willfulness. It must be something of the divine, the qualities of God that are fundamental to life itself—to all of our lives.” And “In patiently waiting on an infinitely patient God, we are trusting that our needs will be met; we have faith that divine Love will deliver its promise of good—a loving promise from a loving God to each of us.”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.