Article October 9, 1943 Issue

The Bigness of Today

ROBERT D. WELLS

"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." These words, written by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, and found in the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p vii), have encouraged students to expect reward for righteous efforts today. The understanding of the ever-present power of the "sustaining infinite" contradicts every dictum of mortal mind, and hence the Christian Scientist must be able to maintain his conviction that delay, procrastination, and lack of fulfillment are not part of God's plan for His children.

A student of Christian Science who had often faced discouraging prospects because of seemingly endless delay concerning many details of his daily experience, decided one day to try to live the spirit of these words: "Today is the most important day of my experience, and now is the most important moment of my day." Immediately he witnessed the results of this attitude of thought in a wider usefulness and a more successful approach to many of the details of his experience which before had discouraged him.

In retrospect he endeavored to understand why there had been this change in his experience. He saw that he had always been waiting for something to happen to him. If he expected good, it was good which would come to him later; but when he accepted the present moment as the most important in his experience, he had to find within the possibilities of that moment all the satisfaction which heretofore he had held only as a future possibility.

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