PEOPLE in every phase of experience often seem to be burdened with too much to do. One Christian Science practitioner expressed it succinctly when in a letter to the writer she said, "The world is so busy with busyness." She further commented: "This seems to be a busy world, and growing busier every minute. The Christian Science student must needs watch and pray that he be not caught in this mesmeric net of mortal thinking."
How true it is that one needs constantly to refuse to be absorbed by mere busyness! One needs always to have time to prepare room in consciousness for Christ, Truth, to operate.
Is not this one of the things Christ Jesus meant to convey in his parable of the sower? In the familiar account given in Matthew of the sower who went forth to sow, we read of the seed (13:7), "Some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them." Jesus explained (verse 22), "He... that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful."
