Article March 2, 1974 Issue

Life's "Nowness" Deflates Pressure

SALLY LOU FULLER

Once when I was stewing about how busy and disorganized my life as a college student was, and anticipating another sphere of activity, a professor said to me, "Don't you know that this is life, right now?" implying that the intelligent thing to do was to learn to live with life's chaos. He was not a Christian Scientist, as I was, yet I was arrested by his question and used it to reawaken my own basic mental outlook.

I had been accepting the physical evidence of pressure in school activities and doing what mortal man is likely to do when faced with a problem—looking ahead to the automatic solution that might come with an event or a change of environment: "When this paper is finished, I'll have more time for that course" or "Next term I won't have this or that to do" or "After graduation..." or "When I get a job..." or "By the time we're married ..."! What I really needed was to look not ahead in time but into the spiritual reality of existence in God, which Christian Science shows is the only existence, the only true being, right now.

Christ Jesus, on whose teachings Christian Science is based, said of those searching for good: "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."^{Luke 17:21;}

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