Article April 10, 1937 Issue

Overcoming Procrastination

ALICE D. BREWER

Truly has it been said, "Procrastination is the thief of time." Our wise Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 89) that "we are all capable of more than we do."

How easy it is to say, Some day I shall work this problem out! It is also not uncommon to hear it said, I'm glad I have all eternity to solve this problem. There may be some long-standing physical disability or inharmony, an unhappy phase of domestic life, a so-called inherited, unpleasant trait of character, or lack of employment and supply, lack of friends or social adjustment, fear of one sort or another. Whatever the problem, why not be free from it now? Paul says, "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation."

A student of Christian Science found it necessary one day to make a business trip into a neighboring city. That particular morning she arose with a painful sense of headache and physical inharmony. The thought came to her that since it was necessary that she make this trip, she should go immediately to the Reading Room in the city and stay there reading and realizing the truth until she was free from suffering. She went to the Reading Room. One hour, two hours, passed in reading, but the headache still continued.

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