Article March 16, 1987 Issue

"And there was a great calm"

Human life confronts storms of every sort. How do we find peace and calm when the winds of discord blow?

Isabel F. Bates

We read in the Bible that when Jesus was crossing the Sea of Galilee with his disciples, "a great storm of wind" developed, and "waves beat into the ship." In desperate fear, the disciples sought his help. Then, we are told, "he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."^{See Mark 4:36-41.}

It was Christ Jesus' way of thinking and praying and living, all reflecting God, that brought the peacemaking power of divine omnipotence to bear upon the situation.

Jesus knew God to be our heavenly Father, the supreme power, the creator, infinite divine Mind, intelligent, orderly, loving, beneficent. In the light of Christian Science it can be seen how Jesus' works proved that evil cannot be a true presentation of divine reality; evil is only the result of false, materialistic belief, which must yield when faced with the understanding of spiritual Truth. Jesus could not consent to be part of the storm-picture; he represented the remedy for it. He never participated in evil; he healed it.

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