Article August 12, 1985 Issue

Learning to progress peacefully

ISABEL F. BATES

Life need not be one long continual crisis where peace seems never able to take root. By earnest watchfulness, prayer, and surrender to God, we can learn to progress peacefully in our lives, homes, businesses—with quiet hearts.

This lesson continues to unfold for me. During many years I prided myself in being strong-willed, what the world would call a high-powered individual with only one pace: full speed ahead! I believed the responsibility for everything and everyone hung on me personally. As a consequence tension and fatigue were common, many mistakes were made, and much that I did in a day had to be done over again.

But Christian Science is revealing to me a much better way. The understanding is deepening that God, the supreme power, is Truth, perfect and infinite Mind, Spirit, divine Love, and that every right thought and desire comes from Him. I am learning that if, before we set out to do something, we establish the conviction that God, divine intelligence, is governing—and then lean on Him, follow Him, and give Him all glory—not only do our own lives unfold with less labor and greater success, but our efforts to help others become more effective.

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