Article September 20, 1969 Issue

Now Is the Time

EVELYN EWING TISDALE

"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it," ^{Ps 118-24;} says the Psalmist. What a joy to awake to this day!

Mrs. Eddy defines "day" in the Glossary of Science and Health as "the irradiance of Life; light, the spiritual idea of Truth and Love." She further says of it: "The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God's day, and 'there shall be no night there.'"^{Science and Health, p. 584;} Each new day should be met with eager expectancy as a period for unfoldment of good and of nothing else. There is no provision in God's day for one to be anxious or sad or sick or dead!

Because this concept of day in Christian Science runs counter to generally held beliefs of chance, change, and limitation, one needs to be alert to remind oneself repeatedly that God is in charge. One needs to silence the carnal, or mortal, mind so that he may hear and heed the Father's directing and know positively that divine Mind does govern every step of the way, every hour of the day. One gratefully acknowledging this will not be a prey to petty annoyances and anxieties. He will be neither hurried nor flurried. He will not accept lackadaisically whatever may present itself to his thought or be governed by unintelligent impulse, but will move in purposeful activity. When one succeeds in attaining a clear, joyous sense of God's control, he finds that he can accomplish whatever he needs to do, and without strain or fatigue.

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