Article September 19, 1977 Issue

A Dialogue: survival in the classroom

with contributions from Shirley, Cherie, Kay, Martha

This is a subject of vital importance to teachers, parents, and students. The perspectives presented here are excerpts from a taped discussion provided by four Oregon schoolteachers, all of them Christian Scientists. They began by talking about the inspiration gained each morning from their individual study of the Bible Lesson, In the Christian Science Quarterly; and how they use the time driving to school by going over some of the thoughts they've found helpful.

Shirley: The thing I think about most is that there aren't many minds—not thirty child minds and sixty parent minds and a neighborhood of hundreds of minds, including administrators' and other teachers' minds, but just one Mind, God.

Cherie: Since I'm substituting this year, I've found this verse from the Bible particularly encouraging: "He performeth the thing that is appointed for me." Job 23:14; This puts me in line and at one with God. I feel He is the doer and not I—not I as personal sense, that is, but as reflection. I also like that command of Paul's: "Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called." Eph. 4:1; And Mrs. Eddy's statement, "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love." Science and Health, p. 1;

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