Editorial November 3, 1980 Issue

To take the torment out of time

BEULAH M. ROEGGE

Any problems in your life? How much time do you feel you need to solve them? A week? A year? . .. maybe ten years? Even if you wanted a thousand years, you could have them. Today. "Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing," we're exhorted in II Peter, "that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."^{II Pet. 3:8;}

Explaining in the Christian Science textbook this passage of Scripture, Mary Baker Eddy writes, "The rays of infinite Truth, when gathered into the focus of ideas, bring light instantaneously, whereas a thousand years of human doctrines, hypotheses, and vague conjectures emit no such effulgence."^{Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 504;}

And when we think about this, how natural it is to recognize that time in itself isn't a solution to anything. A problem needs an answer—an idea— for solution, not a segment of time. If there is a problem—maybe a physical one—that has been appearing for many years, perhaps even growing, we may be tempted to feel that a large amount of time is needed for healing. But "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years." One day or less of clear, Christ-impelled and focused thinking can reveal all the healing answers we need. The first step of the healing may well be our refusal to wait for a more convenient moment to tackle the problem, and our insistence upon resolving it now.

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