Article March 26, 1990 Issue

Something more you can always do

When you feel there's no more you can do, Love shows it's always possible to do more.

Stephen Gottschalk

In an interview, the late actor Laurence Olivier said that when he was called upon in one Shakespearean play to project night after night a feeling of sheer helpless terror, he would imagine an animal caught in a hunter's trap.

Some of our own worst nightmares are about being trapped, bound, deprived of our freedom. And some of our worst "day-mares"—nightmares lived out in daily life—are about being trapped as well, whether by a relationship, a circumstance, an illness, or personal traits that we can't seem to change.

Sometimes when Christian Scientists find that a needed healing is slow in coming, they may begin to feel trapped by the apparent difficulty of their situation. This feeling is itself one of the worst of traps. But it is one from which we can always win release. No matter how threatening our circumstance, no matter how long it has lasted, no matter how much apprehension we feel, there is something more we can do.

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