I once heard a fanciful tale about two frogs that somehow got into a churn of rich milk. They jumped as hard as they could. But they couldn't jump out. The first frog said, "Well, it's no use. We might as well give up." And that's what he did. The second frog kept on jumping. He jumped until he churned enough butter to give him the platform he needed so he could jump out. And out he jumped!
That little tale may give us something to think about when we feel sunk over something. Like the second frog, we can persist. In Christian Science, persistence means to keep on working and praying until we have a solid foundation of spiritual understanding from which to gain our freedom.
Because Science heals quickly, a problem doesn't usually hang on. When one does, however, we need to watch lest we become so impressed with the difficulty that we go over and over it—thinking about it when we're not talking about it. Somebody has said, "It's like grabbing hold of a live wire and not being able to throw it down."
