It was at some point during the flurry of activity in the days just preceding my sister's wedding—dozens of preparations in progress, doorbells and telephones ringing, people coming and going, the dog barking—that my mother's quiet, comical way of looking at life tweaked her into identifying the occasion as "organized confusion." It brought smiles to our faces, especially since what seemed on the surface to be only a state of confusion was actually a state of orderly progression— everything progressing harmoniously within the framework of an orderly plan—and it was good to be reminded of that. Through the years, that phrase "organized confusion" has popped up in our family to give us a laugh, as well as a reminder that orderly progress is occurring, whenever we have been in the midst of some special project—such as building a house, redecorating, or moving.
Wherever anyone may be in life, each individual is confronted daily with things that simply must get done. This may involve everything from routine personal affairs to something as complex as restructuring a business. Yet none of these things ever needs to make us feel confused or disorganized.
It's clear that order is essential to human progress. Only within a context of order can steady development take place. Of course, we know that human plans do not always result in harmony, simply because human thought is not always operating within a framework of order. That's one good reason it can be valuable to view life with a sense of humor. When we can laugh at ourselves—at the predicaments we sometimes "organize" ourselves into—we can recognize better our need of a surer mental framework for orderly progress than that offered by the human mind. Divine Science gives us this framework. "In the order of Science, in which the Principle is above what it reflects, all is one grand concord," Science and Health, p. 240 writes Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science.
