THE words "Much to Do" were printed on the cover of an engagement book that my mother-in-law once used. And in her handwriting another word had been inserted so that the inscription read, "Much Good to Do." How like her that was! With one word she had changed a sense of urgency and pressure to a sense of peace in knowing that the accomplishment of good is the work of eternity, unlabored, unlimited, and forever unfolding. Mrs. Eddy tells us (Science and Health, p. 584), "The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded."
Preoccupation with time is nothing new. We are used to hearing the expressions "time flies" and "time and tide wait for no man." But neither is it new that the belief of time can be overcome. Christ Jesus overcame the limitations of time when he walked on the sea to his disciples' ship and "immediately the ship was at the land whither they went" (John 6:21) and when he instantaneously healed diseases or disorders of many years' standing.
Now, more than ever before, people often seem ruled by clocks, calendars, timetables, bells, and whistles. Unless we are alert, we may be dominated and tyrannized by the oppression of time in our everyday living. We may find ourselves rushing about, cramming in appointments, perhaps cutting one project short so that we can hurry on to the next. Mrs. Eddy warns (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 230), "Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much."
