When my brother and sister and I were children, there were still cart horses in London. And no traffic lights. Our mother taught us always to give way to cart horses, explaining the difficulty they had with heavy loads in stopping and starting. If allowed uninterrupted progress, they felt less strain.
I have often thought of this in connection with progress Spiritward. Surely one who has undertaken to bring his life more and more into accord with God needs to pray that he maintain the continuing rhythm of unfolding good. He cannot afford to let aggressive suggestions of apathy, doubt, counterattraction, or disenchantment with hard work hold up his progress and make him start all over again.
Mrs. Eddy writes, "Experience has taught me that the rules of Christian Science can be far more thoroughly and readily acquired by regularly settled and systematic workers, than by unsettled and spasmodic efforts." Retrospection and Introspection, p. 87; Continuing development is the result of putting oneself consciously under the law of God, who is divine Principle, Truth, and Mind. As we learn to claim no other Mind than God, Principle, our thinking and experience will progress naturally in the line of Truth's revealings. There will be unerring and undeviating direction, poise, and peace—no lapsing or reacting, no dashing off on red herring trails, no collapse of settled effort.
