Article April 27, 2009 Issue

YOUR STORIES in these times

an occasional feature where readers share special insights gained through their prayer on current topics

with contributions from Leon Gleaves, Kathy Bird, Daniel Otieno Okello

I DID PRETTY WELL in high school—but I did not enjoy chemistry and made the mistake of falling behind in the assignments.

Toward the end of the grading period, my teacher said that if I did not score well on the final exam, I would fail the class. That was a wake-up call! I knew I had to get busy studying, or else. I also realized that I'd been wrong in not studying my class assignments, and I felt sorry about that.

So I began right away to improve. I stayed up late each night and studied. But more important, I thought about my relationship to God as His image and likeness (see Gen. 1:26, 27). I'd learned from Christian Science that God is the all-knowing Mind, and that each one of us has the ability to express the infinite intelligence of that Mind. Here was my opportunity to prove it. So I continued to pray and to study to feel more confident about taking the final exam.

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