Article May 17, 1958 Issue

"FRESH OPPORTUNITIES EVERY HOUR"

ALICE DAVIS SHELMIRE

Writing of the unfailing mercies and compassions of God, Jeremiah said (Lam. 3:23), "They are new every morning." And he continued, "The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him." With infinite good as our portion and new blessings burgeoning with every dawn, how can one speak of opportunity as uncertain or as coming but once, if at all?

Mary Baker Eddy evidently did not entertain such a sense of opportunity, for in her sermon "Christian Healing," we find this statement (p. 19): "Tireless Being, patient of man's procrastination, affords him fresh opportunities every hour." Then follows this comment: "But if Science makes a more spiritual demand, bidding man go up higher, he is impatient perhaps, or doubts the feasibility of the demand."

All too often failure to perceive a beckoning opportunity or reluctance to meet its challenge may be traced to some hidden fear that one's abilities are inadequate to meet a higher demand. But to feel thus bound by the scope of earlier experience or to be restricted by the memory of past performance is to lose sight of God, the true source of one's abilities.

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