Watching Point 492

492 — WATCH that you keep in mind the possibility of completing your human problem within an appreciable length of time. Once Mrs. Eddy closed a letter by writing, “How strange things are finishing up at the closing of this century! Oh, may our lives be completed and every error destroyed!”

If one was knitting a stocking and did not toe it in to a finish at a certain point, one might go on knitting and never finishing. This human problem is by no means an eternal one. One digging a tunnel through a hill never knows when he may break through it. Our lives can be completed and error destroyed within an appreciable time and we must realize this. See Science and Health, page 574:1.