Article March 12, 2001 Issue

WORKING TOWARD RECONCILIATION

Gabriel Okara

Not long ago, I served as chairman of a peace committee in my home country of Nigeria. Our task was to bring peace and reconciliation to an organization that had been ripped into two acrimonious factions. This organization speaks for the Izon ethnic group, which numbers over five million. So it was essential that the organization not be allowed to die.

As I prayed, I stamped indelibly on my consciousness that all of us — the two factions, the peace committee, and the entire ethnic nationality — were of one Mind, that is, the divine Mind. In this Mind there were no differences of opinion over how to obtain the right to determine the Izon's future and to control their own resources. God's purpose is only for good.

I remembered this idea from Science and Health: "In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error, — self-will, self-justification, and self-love,—which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death" (p. 242).

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