Article October 26, 1992 Issue

Held whole in one heart

When faced with racial tension, we can find healing answers by turning wholeheartedly to the power of divine Love.

Joni Overton

As people all over the world are taking a stand for individual rights, reports of ethnic divisions fill the news. Many yearn for stability, as governments fall and people assert their sovereignty. One might think, "How can I even begin to help? I can barely handle my own problems. How can I possibly have a healing impact on the world?"

One day as I passed a shop in downtown Chicago, I noticed a poster in their window. It showed smiling faces of people from all over the world, with the quotation "Our true nationality is mankind," by H. G. Wells, written boldly across the top. The statement made me pause. I looked at the people all around me on the street, people from all walks of life. Deep in my heart I knew that we were all members of one family—God's family—and that the true identity of each one of us is His spiritual image and likeness.

But I also knew that I needed to understand this more. Christian Science had taught me that simply thinking about the brotherhood of man was not going to heal the deeply entrenched divisions, fears, and misunderstandings. True unity had to come from a deeper understanding of man's oneness with his source, God.

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