Editorial March 17, 1980 Issue

Learn not idleness

BEULAH M. ROEGGE

It is natural for us to be active, productive. "They learn to be idle" I Tim. 5:13; —a statement we find in I Timothy—may point to the simple fact that idleness is unnatural. Idleness is an imposition of limited material thinking. Sometimes it's self-imposed, other times socially fostered.

Wherever there is imposition, there are spiritual truths that may be found and demonstrated to throw off that imposition. The spiritual fact in Christian Science is that man's very being expresses activity. He includes productive ideas. He is useful.

It's not surprising, then, that simply sharing products of someone else's labor, such as is involved in charity or dole, leaves us unfulfilled. While a dole may save from extreme want, it cannot satisfy a basic hunger for usefulness.

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