Do we ever face a problem with the thought that we will need plenty of time to pray because this is a formidable challenge? Then we are regarding the difficulty as real, assigning it power, and proposing to bring up battalions of spiritual truths to defeat it tomorrow, or later.
But there is never a moment when discord is real, when God and His perfect creation are absent. And at the moment we find ourselves thinking, "I must pray about this when I have some free time," that is the time to pray, to realize one's present perfection.
This was brought home to me years ago when I remarked to a young friend newly and wholeheartedly practicing Christian Science that I must work on sight because it was becoming increasingly difficult for me to read fine print. Her reply was swift and forceful. "The moment one experiences a physical difficulty is the time to work," she declared. This helped to break the belief in a big and threatening problem. The next time I had to read fine print and found I still could not see the words clearly, I instantly got to work. I denied that life and intelligence are in matter, that sight is organic, and affirmed that man is spiritual and therefore his senses are spiritual. I also denied that matter had the power to prevent my seeing what I needed to see humanly at that moment. I declared that learning more about God and His qualities, which was the purpose of the reading, had God's support and could not be hampered. That was more than twenty years ago, and I'm still reading fine print without the aid of glasses.
