Article June 3, 1944 Issue

Happy and Profitable Waiting

THOMAS MARTIN GILBERT

Perhaps the most difficult task that we have to face in these days when loved ones are often far away is that of waiting patiently. It does not matter how long the period may be or how unavoidable the cause, human nature is always impatient of delay or forced waiting.

To one who has served for many months at home and abroad in the armed forces, this necessity of waiting was the first and most important lesson to be learned. In the services, where so many men and women have to be fed, clothed, equipped, and billeted, waiting in queues, in squads, and in various units cannot be avoided even with the very best organization. And this business of waiting is no less a problem on the home front, where rationing, transport problems, and so forth, make it necessary for one to take one's turn. But what a difference there is in facing these situations when one's thoughts are uplifted and serene.

Great comfort and relief were felt when the way to attain such serenity was found, complete and satisfying, in the teaching of the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. 'They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength," says Isaiah, and truly this can be proved by any earnest seeker after Truth to whom are revealed the strength and the poise gained by waiting— waiting in the calm assurance that the only Mind, divine Love, controlling all, is ever conscious of our needs and supplies them before we ask.

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