Article August 18, 1945 Issue

Are We Active or Just Busy?

CONSTANCE A. HUNT

Frequently we say or hear others say, "I've been so terribly busy lately." What is it that would create this reign of overbusyness?

Mary Baker Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in speaking of action writes as follows (p. 419): "Mind produces all action. If the action proceeds from Truth, from immortal Mind, there is harmony; but mortal mind is liable to any phase of belief." There can be but one conclusion, that whatever would cause us to admit we are "terribly busy" is not the action of Mind, but is a "phase of belief" to which our Leader says mortal mind is liable. Our course, therefore, becomes clear. We must rid ourselves of this encroachment upon our right to be harmoniously active.

The arguments of this claim of being too busy would convince us that we are too busy to study the Lesson-Sermon daily; too busy to give a word of comfort to one struggling with a sense of inharmony; too busy to be courteous toward or even considerate of our neighbor; too busy to listen for the promptings of Love before making decisions; too busy to declare the truth about a situation. Not infrequently this argument of busyness endeavors to cause us to plead guilty to the accusation that because we have been unusually active now we are apathetic, spiritually dull, unable to utilize the truth; and sometimes it even dares to suggest that the truth does not work anyway.

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