Article May 12, 1997 Issue

Exam time peace

Sarah Goetze Hyatt

The big test is tomorrow. You have been studying, but somehow the peace that should have come with a sense of being thoroughly prepared still escapes you. At all times, but perhaps especially when our best human efforts seem inadequate to the task at hand, it is natural for us to turn to God as the source of all ability and being, seeking the peace that Christ Jesus promised us when he said: "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" (John 14:27).

You and I can demonstrate here and now, through an understanding of divine Mind, the sense of peace that characterized the life of Christ Jesus. Mind is a synonym for God, divine intelligence. In reality, man, God's image or expression, always manifests the qualities of his creator. The man of God's creating is our true identity; and man is never for an instant separated from the one, divine Mind or left to deal with many mortal or carnal minds, each having its own agenda. The belief in many minds apart from God actually breaks the First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" (Ex. 20:3).

Acknowledging only one Mind, or God, and our own individuality as His expression, allows us to destroy the aggressive suggestions of the carnal mind and wakens us to the fact that we are not competing with teachers or other students. The realization that we are all expressing divine Mind enables us to have that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5). Having one divine Mind frees us—each in his or her own individual way—to express intelligence, astuteness, insight, comprehension, clarity.

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