The answer to that question might be found by asking another. Can I look forward to each day, excited to see what it brings? Or, is it possible that deepening my spiritual sense could improve my life? Well, the answer to both is, absolutely!
I have so loved the dedication required and the opportunities I’ve found in my life to learn what this Science gives me. I love engaging with the ideas in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures simply for the sake of those ideas! One of the greatest thinkers of this or any century, the author of Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy, knew the power of faithful dedication. She writes about it with succinctness, “Dedication to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible.” (Science and Health, p 199)
This is not to say that there haven’t been needs, great and small, (some really great and some really small!) but in those times when things are going along pretty well, that’s the times I thunk I love digging into the Bible and Science and Health just for the charge I get out of new discovery! Because I don’t feel that life is about begging God to,solve my problems. I just want to know life as God shows it to me. This is fun and rewarding all on its own. No requirement except to let my search bring out a better me, more love for others through more love for God, divine Love, the wonderfully all-good source of all creatuon! That’s a pretty phenomenal concept to explore!
It’s ok, actually it’s great, that this takes dedication and resolve to gain new insights and inspiration, because otherwise we’re pretty much going against the current of materiaism’s fast pace. To be certain of our place in all this takes backbone, conviction, and often simply calm, thoughtful reasoning.
Eddy observes, “Experience has taught me that the rules of Christian Science can be far more thoroughly and readily acquired by regularly settled and systematic workers, than by unsettled and spasmodic efforts.” (Retrospection and Introspection. 87) This such a good remonder that calm, quiet study brings rewards. Make a place for it in your day, and see its effects.
I write this because I’m hoping this viewpoint might encourage another who might wonder why even bother. We all want better, more fulfilled lives, lives not at risk with few answers. We want more confidence in every detail of our day, and we need trust in a power greater than ourselves.
By exploring new possibilities based on understanding the law of divine good, we’ll experience more selfless living, even more integrity, patience, love, and a trust that good is possible in every area of living and healing. As we are more spiritually focused, our days are more clearly defined and our purposes are strengthened.
Simply put, we’re just better people doung better things with our lives. That’s “why bother.”