SINCE WE HAVE ALL ETERNITY in which to think, pray, grow, create, work, enjoy, love, and be loved, there's no reason to feel pressured and driven by time. This happy thought came to me one day to ease my feeling of never having enough time. I took this as a message from God, assuring me that the frustration and pressure I had been struggling with were unnecessary and dispensable.
I asked myself, Why are you hurrying so? Is time running out? Then I remembered these words: ". . . time is no part of eternity." That's from this sentence in Science and Health: "Eternity, not time, expresses the thought of Life, and time is no part of eternity." Science and Health, p. 468. Time is, by nature, limited. It quantifies, measures, sets boundaries. Therefore, it has no place in eternity, because eternity is unbounded.
When we're feeling pressured, what we most need is ideas, not time. Oftentimes, that harried feeling comes from thinking of ourselves as having limited mental capacities. But that thought would never come from God, who is infinite intelligence and governs the universe. This intelligence, or divine Mind, is actually our Mind. We are the creations, or ideas, of this one and only Mind.
