Article April 30, 1977 Issue

Discouraged? Consider "Slow and Go"!

BLESSING AINSWORTH BROWN

It's hard to be grateful when one is crawling along a packed four-lane expressway, with cars stretched as far as the eye can see. The impatient urge is to step on the accelerator and move. Recently I heard over my car radio a traffic report on the highway I was traveling: "Slow and go, no tie-ups, no accidents." At once I began to appreciate the orderly forward motion of those many cars. At least we were moving!

Gratitude is a primary requisite. In some respects dealing with a traffic jam can be likened to our progress in Christian Science in meeting a challenge that seems prolonged.

When progress seems slow at times, there is something to be said for quietly proceeding at a steady pace—not with resignation—but with assurance of the goal. We will get there. What is perfect, complete, and harmonious is right now the state of our true being. This perfection appears humanly to unfold in stages or degrees; as the veil of material thinking is lifted, spiritual expansion takes place. Paul's assurance is heartening—that we will "all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." Eph. 4:13;

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