We went to a friend's home recently for the evening. She has just completed her thesis for a master's degree in archaeology. It was bound as a book, and I looked through it carefully and in admiration. What research, scholarship, and—most of all—devoted thought had gone into it! She'd spent many months writing it, not to mention the field experience she'd had—patiently digging, discovering, identifying, and classifying artifacts.
On the way home I asked myself, "Do I put the same kind of single-minded, dedicated, persistent effort into my study and application of Christian Science?" I continue each day to use that question to help guide my own approach to studying and living Christian Science.
There's no getting around it; we really need to work at understanding and demonstrating Christian Science. Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, pulled no punches in what she expected of her followers. She said, "There is no excellence without labor; and the time to work, is now." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 340.
