Article December 19, 1914 Issue

Real Accomplishment

BESSIE L. BIGNALL

How many of us have not faced the questions : "What am I really accomplishing?" "Am I doing all I should?" Perhaps one's occupation and environment seem to cause dissatisfaction, or there is a sense of being hampered in some way, of being unable to bring forth desired results. Perhaps the suggestions are lack of opportunity, lack of education, lack of confidence, lack of influence, etc., which create a feeling of unrest and discontent. How are we to remove and dispose of these stumbling-blocks to success?

Let us first look squarely at our desire to accomplish a given end. What is our motive? Is it prompted by selfishness or unselfishness? Will others be benefited by it? Are we seeking financial gain, social distinction, ease, or have we indeed a righteous desire to prove that "progress is the law of God, whose law demands of us only what we can certainly fulfil"? (Science and Health, p.233.) Our next step is to follow the injunction of the Master, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness," and then not only will all we need be added unto us, but others will be benefited by this unfoldment of good. Our health, wisdom, supply, harmony, as well as our right place, exist now in divine Mind, untouched by any opposite evidence. So we are not waiting for any specific good to be created, but merely for that unfoldment of good which results naturally as we realize and honor the true source of good. A tree brings forth fruit in accordance with the law of nature. It cannot of itself cease to grow and produce fruit; neither can we, under divine law, cease to expand into "newness of life" and bring forth the fruits of righteous endeavor. Though we may fail to accomplish what our human sense desires or outlines, when working honestly with Truth we soon find that no loss has occurred; that only a far better result has unfolded than our finite sense could have planned.

Again, the keen distress sometimes experienced in the working out of a problem results not from divine Love, which is ever urging us to press forward, but from our own resistance and self-will. Love's way is always painless and harmonious, and in proportion to our realization of this fact we lose all sense of discord and joyously await the unfoldment of good.

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