Routine, meaning orderly procedure, or the habitual doing of things in an orderly or systematic way, is a good thing to cultivate. Many who have succeeded in human affairs have done so through acquiring the habit of ordering their daily work in a sustematic manner and adhering more or less rigidly to the prescribed order.
This fact, however, does not justify adherence to an unvarying program of daily performance that for the sake of attaining efficiency might degenerate into the perfunctory performance of daily duties. This would eventuate in a sort of mindless performance and would leave less and less opportunity for the spontaneous activity of divine intelligence.
Monotonous routine results in bondage, not in freedom. Divine Mind, the creative and governing Principle of man and the universe, is not subject to any kind of limitation or restriction. It is lawful and law-abiding, but is not circumscribed. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes on page 209 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "Mind, supreme over all its formations and governing them all, is the central sun of its own systems of ideas, the life and light of all its own vast creation; and man is tributary to divine Mind;" but this does not imply anything that could be manifested as inertia or stagnation. It refers, on the contrary, to the eternal, spontaneous, harmonious activity of divine Mind expressing itself everywhere and always through its own perfect government and law.
