Article January 22, 1955 Issue

THE VALUE OF PAUSING

BERNICE P. WOLFF

"Beholding the infinite tasks of truth, we pause,—wait on God. Then we push onward, until boundless thought walks enraptured, and conception unconfined is winged to reach the divine glory." Thus writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 323 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

The student of Christian Science early realizes that the tasks of truth are indeed infinite. To learn to live in Spirit, not in matter; to learn to live above the audible and inaudible suggestions of error and to listen only to the voice of God; to learn to have that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus"—these are only a few of the "infinite tasks" which cause us to "pause,—wait on God."

A dictionary definition of the noun "pause" is, "A temporary stop or rest." It is in the quiet pauses of our tumultuous daily life that we can truly evaluate the past, the present, and the future, as well as meditate upon the eternal. A public reading or address becomes very monotonous if there are no pauses. The pauses give the listener the opportunity to assimilate what has been presented and to be receptive and alert to what follows.

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