When your to-do list is way too long
I was feeling stressed. I was preparing to go to a camp for Christian Scientists in the United Kingdom where I live, and it seemed as though I had 101 tasks to do. As I was walking upstairs to get a few things done, a thought came to me from that week’s Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly. The passage was from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and it says: “Beholding the infinite tasks of truth, we pause,—wait on God. Then we push onward, until boundless thought walks enraptured, and conception unconfined is winged to reach the divine glory” (p. 323). I said to myself, “Yes, I have infinite tasks to do today!” Then, without really thinking about the true meaning of that passage, I pushed it out of thought.
A few moments later, I realized I needed to go into the loft in my house to get some things for camp. So I pulled down the ladders and climbed up. It’s a very dark space and some spots are only fixed with plasterboard, which is very weak. As I was walking around looking for things, I stood with both feet on the plasterboard and fell through the ceiling. I landed on the stairs, along with a lot of plasterboard and insulation.
I knew I would stop feeling burdened if, instead of shouldering things on my own, I paused and let God guide me through each task.
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