Article December 15, 1945 Issue

Mind Never Overworked

ELINOR NICHOLL CARTER

The feeling of weariness, of stagnation or overburdened progress, cannot be predominant in the lives of those who are radically dependent upon God and this fact points the way to release from these unprofitable states of human thought. Dependent upon God—does this not describe the consciousness which actively knows and acknowledges that man is the child of God, constantly claims oneness with Him, and recognizes in Him the source of man's strength and of his very being?

It is only when we believe that we have strength and endurance as personal possessions, and therefore in limited quantity, that we find ourselves assailed by physical or mental weariness. This state is not engendered by the quantity or the nature of the work which we do but by our altitude towards it and our concept of ourselves. The individual who is aware in some fair measure that man is wholly spiritual, an idea in Mind, and that his true nature expresses God in thought, word, and deed, is not at the mercy of the spurious laws of overwork and fatigue which claim to govern material selfhood.

In the Christian Science textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read these challenging words (p. 387): "Who dares to say that actual Mind can be overworked? When we reach our limits of mental endurance, we conclude that intellectual labor has been carried sufficiently far; but when we realize that immortal Mind is ever active, and that spiritual energies can neither wear out nor can so-called material law trespass upon God-given powers and resources, we are able to rest in Truth, refreshed by the assurances of immortality, opposed to mortality."

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