Article July 16, 1927 Issue

Patience

ESTELLE C. COHEN

Are, we impatient because we do not seem to see definite, tangible results from our work? Are some of our problems slow in being solved? Do we think we are making little or no progress? Then we may learn a lesson in patience from the farmer. He does not expect that the seeds he sows will produce grain overnight. But with care and vigilance he takes the necessary steps, knowing that in due course and at the right season he will gather in his harvest; for he works in obedience to the laws of nature.

So it is with the student of Christian Science who, faithfully and persistently, is looking away from the testimony of the material senses to the truth of being, from matter to Spirit. He is constantly watering the seed sown in his consciousness by the Christ, Truth, by keeping his thinking scientifically active, filled with spiritual ideas. This daily and hourly purification of thought must be, and is being, made manifest in the life of the true Christian Scientist, giving him a fuller and truer sense of health, harmony, and his unchanging relation to God. Even though we may not seem to see these results, they are there if we will look for them. Just as we know that while the seed is under the soil, developing itself until it finds expression in a plant, so the seed of the knowledge of man's spiritual nature and his unity with divine Mind is always developing.

In one of the Psalms we are told to "wait patiently" on the Lord. Just what is meant by that? Does it not mean that we are to live one day at a time, and to the very highest of our understanding? All we need concern ourselves about is our thinking; and if we are thinking as Jesus thought, and living as he showed us how to live, we need have no fear of what the morrow will bring. And this waiting does not imply a cessation from our mental work and a passive sitting back and folding of the hands, but rather an active, enlarged faith in and understanding of the certain victory of Spirit over matter.

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