No one likes to be pushed. Resistance is the normal reaction. Most of us prefer to proceed at our own speed, mentally and physically. It's generally someone else's anxiety that does the pushing—whether it be a stranger in a crowded bus or, even more to be regretted, someone close and dear to us in our own home.
How tempting it is, for example, when we know what joy and blessings Christian Science brings into one's life, to try to push a loved one into sharing that knowledge! But can we push others into the kingdom of heaven? Their own acceptance of the fact that they are already in heaven may be the only fully satisfying way of their enjoying it!
Mrs. Eddy wisely admonished her followers, "Let us serve instead of rule, knock instead of push at the door of human hearts, and allow to each and every one the same rights and privileges that we claim for ourselves."Miscellaneous Writings, p. 303;
