Article November 18, 1939 Issue

Our Daily Task

JOHN GERARD LORD

We may awaken in the morning with a sense of weariness and burden, and wish that we might put aside the tasks which face us, turn away from the cares and problems of the day, and spend our time in pleasant relaxation, in putting off the things that need to be done, just for today. We think of the work we have to do in the home, office, store, or factory as a chore, something which we feel compelled to do, but from which we would escape if we could. Our work seems irksome and wearying, and we feel that no pleasure or joy is to be found in doing it. With such an outlook to start our day, is it any wonder that we become fatigued, irritable, impatient, and often self-pitying and resentful?

What can we do to correct this attitude? In the Bible we find the admonition, "Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." Christian Science teaches that God is Love, and that man is His perfect reflection or expression. Then if God is Love, and man is the perfect reflection of Love, man must be ever expressing the divine qualities or attributes of Love in joy, patience, kindliness, and love. Therefore doing "all to the glory of God" must mean doing everything in love, with love filling our hearts every moment of each day. It is indeed our real work to be constantly expressing God through right qualities, such as honesty, integrity, industry, and the like.

Thus we may see in our work each day new opportunities to reflect Love, God—to be loving, to serve, to help and bless our fellow man. As each day is filled with inspiration and joy, the sense of drudgery, boredom, laziness, or weariness is removed. The more we express of the divine qualities or nature, the more of rest and peace we gain, demonstrating the truth of Mrs. Eddy's statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 218), "The consciousness of Truth rests us more than hours of repose in unconsciousness."

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