Article May 29, 1926 Issue

Active Patience

MAURICE KENNEDY

Jesus said, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled;" and Mrs. Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 1), "Desire is prayer." Those who have this whole-hearted, earnest desire, which is a hunger and a thirst for righteousness, are truly praying; and prayer is the way to demonstration and understanding.

Such seekers do well to watch lest they entertain impatience, thereby inviting discouragement. The alert student will seek and prize the sustaining quality of patience, in order that he may make steady and sustained progress in the understanding and demonstration of Christian Science. The quality of quiet, active patience lies at the root of true progress; and we find it a great help to the attainment of such patience to remember at all times that Truth is in reality as true now as it ever was or will be; that God's work is done; that He maintains His creation; and that what so-called material sense calls growth or progress is just the unfolding to consciousness of the divine idea, which exists, and has forever existed, at the point of perfection.

This confident laying hold, through trust and faith, of the great fact that all of God is everywhere and always present, enables us to live fully and gladly in the love and harmony of the present, and to welcome the unfoldment of infinite Truth as it dawns more fully day by day in our thought.

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