Article September 6, 1930 Issue

Watering Our Gardens

VERNITA SWEZEA SEELEY

AT some time or other most of us have probably had a share in caring for a garden. Whether it was a modest window-box garden, the flower beds around one's house, or part of a beautiful estate, we have realized the importance of properly watering it so that it may be verdant and blooming. We have known that there would be many months of quiet, unfruitful appearance; but we have also known that just as surely as the day follows the night, so does the blossoming season follow the patient, loving care expressed in the preparing, the planting, and the watering of the garden.

Possibly we may be trying to solve problems of health, of home, of finance, of human relationships, and oftentimes the season of fruition, or demonstration, seems far away. It may seem to us so far away as to make us doubtful that it will ever appear. In the light of Christian Science, however, we are learning that the old belief which is voiced in some such manner as this, "Well, we need not expect to be free of this problem in this world," is obsolete. This same lying argument might also claim that unkind relatives or neighbors might have to pass on in order to free us or them from hateful and erroneous beliefs. We cannot afford to believe these arguments for a minute! The would-be postponement beyond the grave of fruition cannot be true, because we are acknowledging God as ever present Life and as our life.

Since God is ever present Life, and is good, as the Bible teaches, there can be nothing but the continuous unfoldment of harmonious life or being for ourselves and for our neighbors. By accepting this act, even in a small degree, we make possible the fruition here and now. Unfoldment in God, good, is, must be, continuous; therefore the right thinking which expresses Him must be continuous, and nothing can prevent true being from appearing. In the garden, season by season, we see a continuous, orderly, and natural unfoldment.

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