Article June 22, 1987 Issue

Healing weariness

The Christian Science Monitor

When the alarm went off I was already tired. All week I had been rushing nonstop to meet deadlines at work and to get my house in order for weekend guests. It was Friday and I had important work to accomplish by noon. The houseguests were coming that night.

Would I ever make it? As a frantic, worn-out mortal, probably not. But through my study of Christian Science I had learned that my real being as God's image is immortal. I saw, then, that in the truest sense my strength came from God, Spirit—from the one divine Mind—not from a good night's sleep or a lively human mind or strong muscles. Here was an opportunity to prove it.

As was my usual practice (except for that week when I had felt too rushed), I took time to study the Bible Lesson outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly. And there was a particular Bible citation that graphically illustrated where all the strength and stamina I needed were going to come from: "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? ... He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. ... They that wait upon the Lord ... shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." Isa. 40:28, 29, 31.

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