Article January 2, 1989 Issue

How can we find time to do what we need to do?

Not having enough time is an experience familiar to us all. Is there a way to break through limitations and gain genuine dominion over time?

Elaine R. Follis

It was two days before final examinations, and all over campus that familiar cloud of panic and pressure was beginning to descend. After class, a freshman in one of my classes asked to talk with me, so we got our lunch trays and brought them to a quiet spot in the dining room. Her eyes were wide with fear as she described how much she had to do in the next forty-eight hours, how little sleep she had been getting for weeks because of that quarter's drama production, and how worried she was about the possibility her grade point average would slip.

I knew the feeling! I suppose every student does, and certainly no one becomes a college professor without lots of "burning the midnight oil" experiences. But I had learned that those were times when I could learn more of God as infinite Mind, the source of all real intelligence.

This is one aspect of Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christian Science—that the fact of there being only one Mind necessitates there being only one source of intelligence. A spiritual understanding of intelligence radically challenges the conventional view of a brain-based mind. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy shares such an understanding. She writes: "Intelligence is omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. It is the primal and eternal quality of infinite Mind, of the triune Principle,—Life, Truth, and Love,—named God."^{Science and Health, p. 469.}