ONE morning as the writer looked out at the surrounding scenes on her way to the business portion of a city, the thought came to her, How pleasant it would be to travel over new ground every morning rather than have to go over the same old road! From frequent passing through a certain district of the city she felt that she was familiar with everything along the way. No student of Christian Science, however, can long dwell in an erroneous sense if he is desirous of being taught of God; and immediately there followed the thought, New ideas transform old scenes. It was at this point her thought changed in regard to believing that familiar scenes should be prosy because of long acquaintance with them. And, furthermore, she realized that she was not really ac quainted with the true nature of these things at all.
On turning from the material to the spiritual, the writer found food for thought, and the monotony of daily routine presented itself as something that could be overcome by gaining an understanding of spiritual existence and applying this understanding to the problems at hand. Every day brings fresh opportunities for revealing new truths, if one but strives to apply this knowledge of Spirit to his daily experiences. If, to human sense, one seems to find himself in the same place each day, with no material change in his work or surroundings, right there is an opportunity for the unfoldment of spiritual ideas, when old scenes shall become new. Paul offered a remedy for overcoming the irksomeness of daily routine when he said, "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Have we done all that we are capable of doing to bring out a sense of harmony in our present environment? It is not so much that we need new scenes, but rather that we need to transform the old ones. And surely there is always opportunity for proving the power of God, good, through learning the lesson that the present experience has to teach!
Our problems will never be solved until we work them out through divine Science. The healing and corrective power of Truth must be applied to every phase of discord which comes into our lives. It matters not whether the problem on hand is of a business or a domestic nature, of restoring health or of overcoming the belief of advancing years, it is always a problem to which divine Science holds the solution. Perhaps mortals are more prone to concede to the claims of material belief in regard to age than to most difficulties which present themselves to the socalled human mind. And here one has a wonderful opportunity to overcome the belief of time and to begin to express the thought of eternal Life. It is from the material sense of things that mortals must part company, in order to gain the understanding of spiritual existence. There is no chasm so wide between mortals and spiritual progress that divine Love cannot fill it, and make a safe passage for the one journeying heavenward.
